In the news item below – which was originally broadcast by 5 News – Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust (which publishes BioNews), discusses the creation of chimeric embryos which contain material from both monkeys and humans (as reported elsewhere on BioNews this week).
(If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.)
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