One potentially appealing experimental strategy is to investigate the functional effects of human-lineage specific (HLS) sequences in transgenic non-human primates (NHPs). Ideally, the species ...

Speciesism' is the idea that being human is a good enough reason for human animals to have greater moral rights than non-human animals ... when considering an ethical issue.

The article below only deals with the ethical issues of this ... to actually create living animal-human hybrids. [Such beings are often referred to as chimeras after a creature in Greek mythology ...

The idea of U.S. scientists creating hybrid human-animal beings raises staggering ethical, legal, and scientific questions ...

However, they also raise some ethical concerns, as a group of Japanese bioethicists at the Kyoto University note in a letter published today (April 4) in Cell Stem Cell. For instance, the guidelines ...