By Luke Roney –

A handful of scientists may be blurring the line between human and animal as they work toward creating embryos that are a combination of both, NPR reports.

Their goal is to grow human organs in farm animals for transplant into terminally ill patients—but the work is “ethically charged,” the MIT Technology Review points out, and the National Institutes of Health has blocked funding while it considers the implications.

Meanwhile, scientists are pushing ahead with alternative funding. The work itself involves deleting a gene needed to grow a particular organ in, say, a pig embryo.

Human stem cells are then inserted in hope that a human organ, such as a pancreas, will develop instead when the embryo is placed inside a pig’s womb….read more here