nyny

what's going on across the pond?

In the past couple of days some really interesting news has come from Britain. First, some sort of authority or commission is deciding this week whether or not to allow hybrid genetics experiments, ie. whether or not to allow scienties to make part-human/part-animal embryos. Scientists want to experiment with stem cells by creating embryos made of human DNA and either cow or rabbit DNA. That's new.

Also this week, there's a huge commotion over the commercial consumption of goods produced from cloned animals. I don't know exactly why this is such a big deal...it doesn't matter to me if I'm eating sirloin from the original or the copy, but whatever. Apprently it's a big deal over there. Crazy Brits!

posted by becka @ 6:43 PM