Q&A: Hybrid embryos

January 18, 2008

The long-running issue of whether to allow production of the embryos – using human DNA implanted into animal eggs – has in the past prompted sensational headlines about “Frankenbunnies”. A government white paper published in December 2006 after public consultation originally announced that the creation of chimeras – organisms consisting of at least two genetically different kinds of tissue – and other kinds of interspecies embryos would be banned. (Guardian)