This breakthrough represents a big step toward creating animal hybrids capable of growing human-compatible organs, easing the ...

Human gametes develop within the body of the resultant organism; It contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues; or It exhibits human facial features or ...

On Wednesday, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) blocked the Senate bill that would have protected IVF treatment on a federal level, claiming it was an issue that should be left up to the states. But she ...

BIOTECHNOLOGY is becoming dangerously close to raging out of control. Scientists are engaging in ever increasingly macabre experiments that threaten to mutate nature and the human condition at the ...

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A Republican senator has blocked a bill to safeguard in vitro fertilization access because of fears of human cloning and the creation of "chimeras." "It would legalize the creation of human-animal ...

Feb. 7, 2005 — -- Animal-human hybrids have long been the stuff of fairy tales and myths -- from the half-man, half-horse centaur to singing mermaids. Now the swift pace of genetic engineering ...

A Senate Republican blocked a bill intended to enshrine federal IVF protections into law in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that declared frozen embryos have the same legal rights as ...

The research offers the first proof that human embryonic stem cells -- vaunted for their potential to turn into every kind of human cell, at least in laboratory dishes -- can become functional human ...

A remarkable mosaic floor depicting two human-animal hybrid spirits has been uncovered at the site of an ancient Greek city. The mosaic was identified in the modern town of Eretria on the island of ...