Ohhhhh let's play God

If this doesn't disgust you, you probably haven't read The Island of Dr. Moreau. Gotta love how this is in their "health" section. I guess the "Disgusting Abuses of Scientific Power" section is temporarily down.

Embryos containing both human and animal material have been created in Britain for the first time, a month before the House of Commons is to vote on new laws to regulate the controversial research.

A team at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne announced tonight that it had successfully generated “admixed embryos” by adding human DNA to empty cow eggs, in the first experiment of its kind in the UK.

Test-tube bestiality. What a development! Donkey shows in Mexico are going to lose some of their more educated clientèle.

Admixed embryos are widely supported by the scientific community and patient groups, as they provide an opportunity to produce powerful stem cell models for investigating diseases such as Parkinson’s and diabetes, and for developing new drugs.

Their creation, however, has been vociferously opposed by religious groups, particularly the Roman Catholic church. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the head of the Catholic church in Scotland, described the work last month as “experiments of Frankenstein proportion”.

I don't think Frankenstein quite does this justice. It's more along the lines of Dr. Mengele working at Planned Parenthood.