Unwanted Hybrid

Minotaur II by Paul Reid

Washington D.C. -- Two members of the U.S. Senate who have been behind unsuccessful efforts to ban all forms of human cloning have introduced new legislation with a new approach. They want to ban the use of human cloning to make human-animal hybrids, the kind of research taking place currently in England.

Stephen Minger of King's College London, who has received permission from the British government to engage in hybrid cloning there, has been pushing hybrids forward.

He is attempting to fuse DNA from cows with that of humans in order to create new stem cells that could be used in scientific research.

Senators Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, and Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, want to prohibit such research from taking place in the United States.
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