Sentences with phrase «human animal hybrids»

I know of one highly experienced research press officer, who had worked on controversial issues like human animal hybrids, GM crops, animal research, minimum alcohol pricing and climate change, who admitted: «Nothing had prepared me for the most polarising, knee - jerking subject of all: breastfeeding.»

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Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human - animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.

And the sons of God (the fallen) came down took human wives made hybrids (see men of old, men of renown) and created abominations with animals and people

Daily Telegraph May 7th 2007 Chief contributor: Lisa Gregoire OF EVANGELICAL INTEREST • Radio Four's Sundayprogramme on 20th May last hosted a discussion on the government's «U-turn» in favour of the creation of human - animal hybrid embryos for medical research.

He is referring to the question of human - animal hybrid embryos; and he does not, it will be noted, utter anything so obvious as «it is profoundly wrong»:

New research techniques, and most recently licences for research on human - animal hybrids, have been pushed forward with inadequate attention to the long - term ethical problems they pose.

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embhuman hybrid embryos.

Among the bill's most controversial sections is legal clarification allowing research on so - called hybrid embryos, where a human nucleus is inserted into an animal egg.

Science won out over the «yuck factor» today as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted the first licences for research on human - animal hybrid embHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted the first licences for research on human - animal hybrid embhuman - animal hybrid embryos.

MPs have urged the government not to ban hybrid human - animal embryos, warning current proposals are too prohibitive and could compromise the UK's position in the scientific community.

Mr Cameron said that he did not favour overturning the controversial Human Embryology Act, which allows the creation of hybrid human and animal embHuman Embryology Act, which allows the creation of hybrid human and animal embhuman and animal embryos.

To make the point, he uses Nicola Hicks's Maquette Head for Crouching Minotaur, a bust of the bull - human hybrid, and Louise Bourgeois's sculpture, Nature Study, which amalgamates human and animal body parts into a confusing, headless whole.

Remember the freakish animal - human hybrids in The Island of Dr. Moreau?

While human - animal chimera work is still in its infancy (and faces ethical and funding hurdles, see sidebar), hybrids of rats and mice are already hinting that growing an organ from

Hybrid, or chimeric, animals may eventually grow human organs to be used in transplants.

The report, from a committee made up of 11 members of Parliament, also recommends legalizing research involving embryos of chimeras and hybrids, which includes cells created by fusing human and animal nuclei.

A long - shot attempt to block U.K. researchers from creating human - animal hybrid cells or embryos has ended quickly, with a judge dismissing a new lawsuit filed by the Christian Legal Centre and the Comment on Reproductive Ethics and ruling that the groups should pay # 20,000 in court costs.

In his State of the Union address, President Bush named «human - animal hybrids» as one of «the most egregious abuses of medical research.»

In science fiction stories with such hybrids, a big part of the plot is the resultant ethical gray area: There are certain standards for animal research, and much stricter standards for human research.

THE HYBRID FACTOR To understand signs of interbreeding among humans, Neandertals and other ancient hominids, scientists are studying physical changes in the bodies of various animal hybrids.

Gods were frequently portrayed as animal - human hybrids.

What's wrong with a human / animal hybrid?

The creation of human - animal hybrid embryos, which is now legal in Britain, was also rejected by the vast majority of respondents.

A coalition of Britain's leading medical charities had earlier urged MPs to approve stem cell research using human - animal hybrid embryos.

Unfortunately, that's at the expense of humans, and there are some seriously gnarly encounters as team members are picked off by animal hybrids, like a nightmarish bear whose roar is imbued with the screams of its previous victims.

You can also get a glimpse at the character creation in the livestream which allows you to create characters that can be hybrid in nature with animals and humans both included.

Evocative of Danny DeVito's Penguin in Tim Burton's «Batman Returns» — but all the more nightmarish — the suit is less suit and more human - animal hybrid, allowing Long to extend his performance from hilarious to bizarre to bizarrely heartbreaking.

Severin Films» acclaimed documentary Lost Soul — The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr Moreau will make its US Blu - ray and DVD debut on July 14, packed with more special features than Dr Moreau's abominable animal / human hybrids.

These three individuals were charged with creating a list of dangerous wild animals, which are defined as «a mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian and aquatic animal, including a hybrid, that is dangerous to humans, other animals or the environment due to its inherent nature.»

Unlike the primary title, Beyond Good & Evil 2 locations gamers within the position of their very own customized area pirate, who may be any race, gender, and even species — be it a human or animal hybrid.

Using pins to create hybrid human - animal figures against backdrops of grandeur certainly gives each artwork a talking point.

The artist's practice, which encompasses painting, collage, photography, video, sculpture, and performance art, often centers around a mythical cast of human, animal, and hybrid characters, who live in a world that exists somewhere between fantasy and reality.

Ichwan Noor is a Yogyakarta - based artist (Jakarta, Indonesia, 1964) renowned for his large - scale sculptures of hybrid human, animal and technological forms.

Project Space Festival Day 14: District Mythical figures are hybrids that exist between worlds — the animal and the human, the past and the present, the sea and the land.

From a human - animal hybrid figures to black and white photographs of modern Mali, the festive break is your last chance to catch some of the best shows of 2016.

The unsettling portrait quickly breaks down and transforms into footage reminiscent of a nature documentary, exploring the flora and fauna of a mysterious island as well as its inhabitants, which are hybrids between humans, animals, and ghosts.

21 — 28.06.2015 6 — 13.09.2015 Family Sundays: Little Giants David Altmejd's spectacular, meticulously crafted sculptures will inspire participants to create hybrid figures that bear a connection to the animal kingdom and to the human species, in particular.

She also focuses on the adventures of women, which sometimes take the form of half - human, half - animal hybrids with bodies cut from pornographic magazines, and other times, pale - faced, folksy ghosts known as «Spirit Girls».

Her later pieces, which have come to define her style and make up for much of the show, usually represent human forms in motion or hybrid creatures that blend the human form with animal features.

Her portraits of human - animal hybrids have a stiffness reminiscent of early New England portraiture, and her muted palette is accentuated by the choice of gouache and acrylic in preference to oil.

This exhibition highlights the impact and interaction of Alexander's hybrid human - animal figures as well as her documentary - style photographic montages.

If you look at The Rise of the Blond, you will see human and animal hybrids all marching toward right.

Fashioned from bronze, fibreglass, aluminium and wood, his bulbous animal - human hybrids might be uncannily reminiscent of jovial cartoon personalities, but they tend to stand alone in poses of slightly disorientating pathos.

He blended the artistic styles of his adopted countries with those of Africa, creating mythical hybrid figures — combinations of animals, plants and humans — in large - scale paintings.

Each canvas features variations on the motif of a particular human, animal or hybrid figure engaged in a singular activity, which may involve physical elevation, technological innovation or spiritual transcendence.

The sixteen - foot tall sculpture, a human / animal / cartoon hybrid, is seen seated, head in hands.

In my narrative silkscreen prints of human - animal hybrid creatures in urban environments, I create alternate worlds that are often based off of cities I have lived in, such as my hometown of Providence, RI and New York, where I live now.

Swords, daggers, demons,, animal, human and hybrid beings, an imagery that often draws from art history and, more generally, from a spiritual and mystic dimension, guide us through a twilight where figures emerge from the scrawled surface — they seem to prevail, and then again they are absorbed by the invasive gesture of the pen.

In this category I would put two of the five freestanding sculptures found in the first of the exhibition's two rooms, David Hare's almost entirely abstract «Figure Waiting in Cold» (1951) and Germaine Richier's animal / human hybrid «The Devil with Claws» (1952).

Laric intersperses these animated runs with stills of disturbing, digitally - modeled «crossbreeds» — slick machines with lumpy human arms and legs; a melted humanoid in a black oily pool on the ground surrounded by clothing he once wore; a submissive hybrid on its hands and knees in front of a standing woman, who is taking its picture like an animal at the zoo.