It Is Easier to Clone a Human Than to Blend One With an Animal

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By Eliza Strickland
Feb 5, 2009 2:11 AMNov 5, 2019 5:26 AM

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After years of fiddling with human, mouse, rabbit, and cow cells, researcher Robert Lanza has declared that it's impossible to create human-animal hybrid embryos, but that human cloning appears to be eminently doable. Lanza wasn't trying to create some freakish chimera, nor did he intend to bring forth a squalling baby as the world's first human clone. But ever

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