The article wrote:
you may begin to undermine the whole distinction between animals and humans
From a biological level, this distinction is.. what?
As Samira pointed out, mixing human and animal DNA is
nothing at all new. I posted a long while back about mice having human stem cells in their brains (also referenced in the linked article). This just has the word embryo in it. Although, for what it's worth, they aren't even human embryos.
The article wrote:
The procedure, which they hope will provide a plentiful supply of stem cells, involves transferring nuclei containing DNA from human cells to cows' eggs.
Gbaji wrote:
Good thing we don't need to worry about that whole Stem Cell Research slippery slope thing.
Get off it. Your "slippery slope" argument was that women would be whisked off to Caribbean islands to be impregnated and harvested
The idea presented here, ironically enough, is to create a source of quasi-human embryonic stem cells for research that
don't have to come from actual human embryos and "kill" a human life.