With this, the British government hopes to quell the public debate that began with the scientists' announcement a few months ago about the possibility of cloning humans using emptied cow eggs, not for the purpose of reproduction but as a means of producing stem cells without removing eggs from women
British regulators have decided to consult the public on whether scientists will be allowed to create human and animal hybrid embryos. Several ministers proposed outlawing the study after it received unsympathetic public opinion.
However, a report recently published by the Technology and Science Committee warned against a complete ban and called it an impractical prevention, which could harm British scientists. The Human Fertility and Embryo Authority (HFEA) will announce its final recommendations in the autumn.
As you remember, a number of researchers at King's College London and the University of Newcastle, submitted an application for approval to produce embryos that would be 99.9% human and 0.1% animal. This request has not yet been discussed.
Stem cells
The HFEA recently put together a consultation paper explaining to the public the different types of embryo research that can be carried out in the future. For example, using an animal's egg to create hybrid embryos, from which stem cell lines can be derived. The embryos produced as a result of the process will not be allowed to develop beyond 14 days and their insertion into the uterus will be prohibited. The hope is that these cells will be able to enable treatments against diseases such as Alzheimer's, or motor impairments.
In June there will be a public meeting in London where interest groups, fertility patients, ordinary citizens and scientists will discuss the issue. In addition, a public opinion poll will be conducted with the participation of a sample of 2,000 people and every citizen will be able to express their opinion through an online questionnaire.
Shirley Harrison, Chair of the HFEA says: "The possibility of creating human embryos that contain B.C. DNA raises important ethical and social questions that we will have to consider before deciding whether to approve or reject this type of research."
"Groups that are for or against this type of research, usually manage to convey their arguments to us, but since it is a complex field of science, there are other people who may feel that they do not know enough about the subject to take part in the debate or express a position."
The representative of the opponents, Dr. Sophie Petit-Zeman, director of the field of external relations at the association of associations that operate medical research, says: "We promote any initiative that involves the public in thinking about medical research in the context of how it can help patients."
Whereas those in favor, including Prof. Robin Lovell Budge, head of the genetics department at the National Institute for Medical Research, says that he hopes the consultation will promote a greater understanding of the issue. "As long as necessary and self-explanatory limits are maintained, there is no reason to fear these experiments any more than experiments in mixed cells of a transgenic mouse and a human, for example."
On the other hand, Josephine Quinaval, director of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, says that the HFEA does not have a good understanding of science and the body that should be involved in this is, for example, the Royal Society, and in any case, if someone needs to be consulted, it is the society and not the general public. "There are scientists who oppose approval, and they need to be heard."
Dr. Evan Harris, a member of parliament from the Liberal Democratic Party who led the opposition to the proposed ban, says that the consultation is not necessary because very few people oppose the research and do not object in advance to any fetal research. However, he added, "Since it has already been decided to carry out a consultation, there must be an understanding that the responses should be informative, but the scientific research should not be the subject of referendums."
UK scientists seek to clone human embryos from cow eggs
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Soon they will make a cat and dog (cat + dog)
The main problem in the field of hybrids is disease transmission
that viruses and bacteria that exist in the animal kingdom will mutate and easily adapt themselves to humans and seriously harm humanity.
Basically, the boundaries are constantly being stretched more and more
So there is no prevention of hybrid creatures in the future.
It's all a matter of time and who will be the first to throw the bomb 🙂
I also assume that hybrid creatures that are half or partially human have already been created.
Because there is increasing competition all over the world in the field of biotechnology.
And there are countries where the regimes are much less transparent about the experiments that are carried out in them as military armament.
Search in "man and space". Both in Wikipedia and in science. Maybe there is no reference to the 15th team, but in my opinion it doesn't matter, the same is true for all astronauts who stay in space for long periods.
There are several reasons not to answer this question.
A. She can ask about all previous teams.
B. She is asked out of place.
third. There is Wikipedia.
The trick is to think that genetic pollution can be created from such a situation. This is due to proper ignorance. These are human embryos after all and the caps of an emptied cow's egg is a kind of tool through which the scientists can escape from more ethical questions regarding the taking of eggs, etc. This is supposedly how hybrid embryos are created - but this is absurd. The resulting embryos will have a completely human genome. From the mother and the father. Calling them hybrid fetuses is roughly like taking a letter in an envelope and changing the envelope and saying it's a different letter. nonsense.
Sage: What about the mitochondrial genome of the egg? Maternal inheritance is a known field in science - I can only assume that the scientists took it into account on the one hand and that the general public does not know about it on the other hand. The public has no idea what mitochondria are and what maternal inheritance is
These scientists have gone completely crazy.
Look at the genetic difference between a human and a monkey, only tens of percent.
There is no doubt that there will be a genetic contamination that within a few generations will contaminate a large part of the world's population.
This madness must be stopped immediately.