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Britain gives go-ahead on chimeras. Will science now block the way?

Today, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in the UK said that scientists could combine human chromosomes with animal eggs and try to make embryonic stem cells. It’s easier to collect unfertilized eggs from, say, cows than it is to collect them from women. 

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