The Island of Dr. Boring

Here's a strange bit of news from the BBC. Scientists in the UK have created the country's first human/animal hybrid embryos. This may seem like the first step on a road toward a science-fiction universe populated by Man-bats and centaurs (somewhere, a LARPer just got an erection), but the truth is a little more mundane. Despite the fact that the article keeps referring back to the Catholic church's outrage and disgust over the research, the fact is that we're not talking about tusk-wielding monsters here. The embryos were created by injecting human DNA derived from skin cells into eggs taken from cow ovaries and emptied of all their genetic material. In other words, there are simply human embryos in an cow embryo's shell, so the best we can hope for is a new incarnation of Dar, the Beastmaster. Where are my winged servant children, dammit? Anyway, this is apparently good for research into Parkinson's an Alzheimer's. Blah blah blah. I'm bored now. More details here.