The headline was buried in this NewScience.com article today reporting skepticism on London cloning researcher Chris Shaw’s recent claims of success of finding a way around the shortage of human eggs needed for experimentation.
While Shaw’s boasts were called into question, his research wasn’t, which was to “derive stem cells from embryos cloned using rabbit eggs.”
First s/he-males, then Mickey Mouse, and now this, a real-life Bugs Bunny.
Dr. Doolittle once wished he could talk to the animals. Any day now, Dr., don’t be surprised to converse with a live, 6-foot rabbit who asks, of course, “What’s up, Doc?”