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March 26, 2007
CHIM CHIM CHIMERA?
United Kingdom-Dr Patrick Dixon, an international lecturer on biological trends, warned: "Many silent viruses could create a biological nightmare in humans. Mutant animal viruses are a real threat, as we have seen with HIV."
Animal rights activists fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep. But Prof Zanjani said: "Transplanting the cells into foetal sheep at this early stage does not result in fusion at all."
Read all about the 15% human/85% sheep CHIMERA in the daily mail.
Posted by Post Scripts at March 26, 2007 07:50 AM