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Is It Ethical to Transplant Humans or Mice?

Mice can produce living healthy mouse pups from artificial eggs. Process is very inefficient they transplanted back more than 630 embryos to recipient females and only seven pups were born so that's really low. It may be the treatment with this drug causes extra chromosomes loss of chromosomes that affected embryonic development but nonetheless the seven that were born seemed healthy and normal, he says. But it's clearly a long way before this would be at all ethical to try with humans.

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