What I would find horrific is discovering the stem cells produced are not fully human. This would make the research somewhat meaningless. We can already study animal stem cells, no need to study human/animal stem cells for very long when we can reproduce fully human stem cells. The objective is to create stem cell lines.
I am possibly mistaken, but I am under the impression that the cybrids produced from the cow eggs would only have human DNA once the egg divides, the residual ( 1% ) Cow DNA not being carried over into the resulting divisions. In other words, the human DNA takes over completely in the development of the embryo. If this isn't the case, than they are not human embryos at all, and I think it may be impossible to produce human stem cell lines from such a cybrid.
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