Source: The Times
Date: April 1, 2008
Summary:
The Times reports British researchers created animal embryos containing human DNA for the first time:
"Embryos containing both human and animal material have been created in Britain for the first time, a month before the House of Commons is to vote on new laws to regulate the controversial research. A team at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne announced tonight that it had successfully generated 'admixed embryos' by adding human DNA to empty cow eggs, in the first experiment of its kind in the UK."
