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Nature 392, 423 (2 April 1998) | doi:10.1038/32964
Legal fight looms over patent bid on human/animal chimaeras
David Dickson
One of the biotechnology industry's fiercest critics has fired a shot across its bows by applying for a broad patent on methods for creating 'human/animal chimaeras', a description covering a wide range of experiments in which human cells are fused into an animal embryo, or vice versa.The patent has been applied for jointly by Jeremy Rifkin, president of the pressure group Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington DC, and author of several books attacking the use of genetic engineering techniques, and Stewart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College, and a long-standing member of the Council for Responsible Genetics.
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