In May 2008 a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote in the House of Commons, by 336 to 176. MPs had been debating the Human Fertilisation and ...

The proposals under consideration involve replacing the nucleus of an animal egg with the nucleus from a human somatic cell (), and allowing such an entity to develop in vitro for approximately 5 ...

Japan's government approved a request by scientists to conduct stem-cell experiments to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. Japan's science ministry last week gave ...