Scientists Are Now Creating Mouse Human Hybrids

We’ve heard of scientists creating human hybrids in fiction. Hybrid creation also exists in real life, as scientists attempt to create hybrids for medical research. A team of scientists have created the most thoroughly-integrated mouse-human hybrid yet. The doctors hope that their hybrid could serve as accurate models for medical research, as Futurism details: 

The human cells spread out and wove themselves into organs like the heart and liver, while most ended up as red blood cells.

None of the human cells, however, seemed likely to become sperm or egg cells, Science News reports. That means that had the mice been brought to term — the embryos were terminated after 17 days — their offspring would have been perfectly normal mice.

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