> Saying that he is "deeply troubled" by the creation of part-human, > part-cow embryonic stem cells, President Clinton has directed the > National Bioethics Advisory Commission to consider the implications > of the research Is he is afraid of someone creating a half-cow half-human type of creature? I don't know the current scientific possiblities, but this sounds a little like believing in bad science fiction. I would, by the way, have no problem with receiving a graft of cow cells, and I doubt that I would start giving milk or chewing a cud as a result. Phil Tompkins (Moo)