Gavagai?
Three cheers for chimera researchers--curing diseases and pissing off the religious right!
Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
Maryann Mott
National Geographic News
January 25, 2005
Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal.
Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells. [...]
Wow, this reads like part of the backstory to John Crowley's Beasts (though Crowley is all wet about cloning).
(BTW, if you don't know Crowley, don't let this send you to Beasts--I like Little, Big and Engine Summer much better, though LB is very long and ES is very cryptic.)
Posted by: Matt Weiner | January 30, 2005 at 02:59 PM
I didn't realise there was a line between human and animal. I approve greatly of chimeric research and scientific progress in general. Strangely enough I consider myself to be a member of the religious right... though there are a few who would probably disagree.
Posted by: Duncan | February 10, 2005 at 04:46 PM
kick ass site! literally, figurativly - all in all, very ambitious. god speed - gavagai - and last words.
Posted by: joncommon | July 05, 2005 at 07:30 PM