Japan scientists to make a real human/rat hybrid!!

This weekend there was a report from Global News announcing that a scientist in Japan has been granted permission to create a human/rat hybrid:

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After a ban on the practice was lifted this year, Hiromitsu Nakauchi — who leads teams at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University in California — is planning to splice human cells to see if they will grow beyond the current limit of two weeks, Nature reports. If Nakauchi accomplishes this, it will be the first successful experiment of its kind in Japan. His ultimate goal is to grow a human pancreas inside an animal so that it can later be transplanted into a patient.
“If we are able to generate human organs in animals we could help many, many people,” Nakauchi told the Stanford Medicine magazine last year.