Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Animal-human hybrid?
Read this interesting article from The Straits Times yesterday on World section pg 17..
In Britain, the scientists are considering the injecting an egg of a cow or rabbit with human DNA. The resultant embryo would be 99.9% human and o.1% animal, from which stem cells can be extracted.
Is it ethical to conduct such Frankenstein experiments? Even if it's used for stem cell research, it's still a living being! Many religious groups are against this development in stem cell research.
Even though how much we may love our pets, I still cannot imagine having a children which is 0.1% of (probably) my dead dog. Imagine if he/she suddenly starts to stretch his/her ear with his/her foot?! O.O!
What do you think? Human-animal hybrid-ethical or not?
Posted by quack at 10:05 PM
