Are you a man or a mouse?

See article in today's UK Guardian newspaper:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0%2C3604%2C1437701%2C00.html

Chimeric experimentation is producing animal-human hybrids. This time,
science really has gone too far

Jeremy Rifkin
Tuesday March 15, 2005
The Guardian

What happens when you cross a human and a mouse? Sounds like the
beginning of a bad joke but, in fact, it's a serious experiment
recently carried out by a team headed by a distinguished molecular
biologist, Irving Weissman, at Stanford University.

Scientists injected human brain cells into mouse foetuses, creating a
strain of mice that were approximately 1% human. Weissman is
considering a follow-up that would produce mice whose brains are 100%
human.

Comments, anyone? I wondered if it was a bit of journalistic scare-mongering.

Iain.

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