The Associated Press reports that all attempts to create a human-animal hybrid have failed:
NEW YORK (AP) — It may be futile to try producing stem cells by putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs and making hybrid cloned embryos, a strategy that triggered controversy recently in Britain, a new study says. The animal eggs don’t reprogram human DNA in the right way to generate stem cells, researchers report.
“Instead of turning on the right genes, it turns out the animal eggs actually turn them off,” said senior study author Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass.
We live in a walled in proprietary world were increasingly what we buy we do not own, we license. In order to balloon manufacturers profits, keep products afloat that otherwise would sink and if little else, to line the pockets of manufacturers with our pretty pennies, we are forced into a system whereby we cannot repair what we paid good consideration for, because those who made it feel it appropriate to prevent us from doing so. The Maker’s Bill of Rights is a step in the right direction, to give people the power to fix and repair what is broken, to ensure that products which are made are reusable, and provide less impact on the environment – though that may not be the reason for the bill, its a very agreeable side affect.
