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Thursday, January 17, 2008

First hybrid cars, now hybrid people?

Say so long iPod, and hello Centuaur? The next step in hybrid transportation has come closer... though still VERY far away... perhaps one day we can ride a horse that can provide for stimulating political conversation along the trail.

Regulators have given scientists the green light to create human-animal embryos for research. In the distant future this information may lead to scientists to be able to grow new tissues in the laboratory.

Critics say they are repulsed by the idea and there must be no creation of an animal-human hybrid. "The deliberate blurring of the boundaries between humans and other species is wrong and strikes at the heart of what makes us human."

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I think this is a very exciting time for science... what makes us human is the desire to understand what makes us human!

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