The federal government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of certain controversial experiments that use human stem cells to create animal embryos that are partly human. The ...

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LONDON — British scientists will be allowed to create part-human, part-animal embryos for research into potentially life-saving medical treatments, the British government signaled this week. The ...