Posted on 09/23/2003 11:39:16 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Hold on to your hats (and your bibles), life is about to become even more confusing. In China, Dr. Huizhen Sheng apparently has taken donor cells from the foreskin of a 5-year-old boy and two men and facial tissue from a woman, put those cells inside a rabbit egg which had been stripped of almost all its rabbit DNA , and, thus, has created a hybrid rabbit-human embryo — from which she and her team were able to extract "human" embryonic stem cells. Technically, the rabbit egg kept its rabbit mitochondria (the chemical power source for a cell), so the embryos are not allowed to "develop"(e.g., live) for more than a few days. However, their product — embryonic stem cells (ESCs) — presumably will be usable to establish more ESCs for both research and applied purposes.
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