The other stem-cell debate: to test the potential curative powers of human embryonic stem cells, biologists want to inject them into lab animals. Creating such chimeras makes perfect sense, to a point: a sheep with a human liver? O.K. A mouse brain made up of human cells? Maybe. But a chimp that sobs? [electronic resource]
Producer: 20060605Description: 42-7 p. digitalISSN:- 0028-7822
- Animal Experimentation -- ethics
- Animals
- Brain -- physiology
- Chimera
- Embryo Research -- ethics
- Embryo, Mammalian -- cytology
- Fetal Research -- ethics
- Fetal Tissue Transplantation -- ethics
- Genetic Research -- ethics
- Human Characteristics
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Primates
- Species Specificity
- Stem Cell Transplantation -- ethics
- Stem Cells
- United States
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