If you are on the Rose and A Prayer distribution list, you probably saw the reference that "Having looked at all the evidence the [Human Fertilisation and Embryology] Authority has decided that there is no fundamental reason to prevent cytoplasmic hybrid research" and that "Individual research teams should be able to undertake research projects involving the creation of cytoplasmic hybrid embryos if they can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of an HFEA licence committee, that their planned research project is both necessary and desirable."
Human-animal hybrids? Maybe this would be a good time to pick up a copy of The Island of Doctor Moreau.
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I know you're not kidding about this but I really wish you were. Did they at least give some inkling of what they would hope to accomplish by producing such hybrids? I can't find the order to put the multitude of thoughts I'm having about this down...
Hugs & Love
All I know at this point is on the linked press release.
Rapture here we come!
I've been playing a game called BioShock recently...they do almost the same thing in the game, unfettered by morals Scientists in the undersea city Rapture start playing with genetic structure and all that lovely stuff...everything goes to hell shortly thereafter.
I think if they made a novel based on BioShock, that would be awesome. If written well, it would be a great read.
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