Associated Press Reporting

A Louisiana Senate panel has voted to outlaw the creation of so-called "human-animal hybrids.''

Scientific researchers in some areas have tried to create human embryonic stem cells by placing human DNA into animal cells. Harvard University researchers have tried to clone human embryonic cells in rabbit eggs. But the effectiveness and the ethics of such research are being hotly debated.

Sen. Danny Martiny's bill, approved Tuesday by a Senate judiciary committee, defines and outlaws such practices and several ways of making human-animal hybrids, including combination of human sperm and an animal egg, animal sperm with a human egg, or the use of human brain tissue or nerve tissue to develop a human brain in an animal.

The bill goes next to the full Senate.

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