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Article #6649Re: >Human Chimpanzee Hybrid?
From: Donald A. Lehn
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 20:00
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 20:00
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In article <1991Jul16.182911.5863@mlb.semi.harris.com> rcomarow@hsscam.mis.semi.harris.com writes: ->>Dont you think that such an experiment would be so completely unethical ->>(even in a testtube) that no one would ever try it, let alone publish ->>it? I wouldnt hold my breath on this one EVER being done, and would ->>be very shocked to hear that it had. -> ->>Steve Smith ->>Harvard Genome Lab -> ->-- -> ->Why? ->Bob ->rcomarow@hsscam.mis.semi.com I recall, from way back in my undergraduate days 1980-84, reading about and discussing this topic during an embryology course. As I recall, sperm from most organisms is able to penetrate and fertilize eggs from a range of other species. This fertilized egg progresses through several cell divisions, but usually dies fairly quickly. I suspect that this is due to the inviability of certain chromosome rearrangements. Donald A. Lehn NIH/NCI/DCE/LMC-Protein
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a7a9,f3b68185decb8e32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a7a9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-16 22:11:00 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!nih-csl!helix.nih.gov!donnel From: donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.evolution Subject: Re: >Human Chimpanzee Hybrid? Message-ID: <1692@nih-csl.nih.gov> Date: 16 Jul 91 20:00:57 GMT References: <smith.679683350@plasma> <1991Jul16.182911.5863@mlb.semi.harris.com> Sender: news@nih-csl.nih.gov Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Lines: 24