Should the US ban research on human-animal hybrids (2017)?

A ban on human/animal hybrids has been lifted. Futurism. 2 Jun 2017. Reardon, Sara. “US agency to lift ban on funding human–animal hybrids.” Nature. 5 Aug 2016. Stein, Rob. “NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos.” NPR. 4 Aug 2016. read more

But the lead author of their report, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Medical Research Council’ s National Institute for Medical Research, said the scientists were not concerned about human-animal hybrid embryos because by law these have to be destroyed within 14 days. read more

After a nearly year-long ban, on August 4 the NIH said it would soon lift its moratorium and again start accepting grant applications from research labs that want to develop human-animal chimeras. read more