| |
| | Science & Theology News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Eight years ago, when the application was filed, no one had yet produced a human-nonhuman embryo chimera, but it was clear to me that it was possible to do so. |
 | | In discussions in the mid-1990s with economist and biotechnology critic Jeremy Rifkin, I came up with the idea of formulating an invention that was novel, technically feasible, useful, potentially profitable, but in violation of most people’s views of appropriate uses of this technology. |
 | | By applying for a patent on the humanzee, humouse, and other part-human embryos and animals, we hoped to alert the general public to the need for regulations and restrictions in this area. |
| www.stnews.org /print.php?article_id=533 (1001 words) |
|