Five in Ten 6/9/21: Senate Bill Would Enable Creation of Chimeras

A bill loaded with amendments benefiting special interests is likely to pass the Senate this week. The bill would allow the NIH to pursue “in vitro culture of chimeric embryos”—the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for experiments.

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