Lara Logan says new legislation may open the door for 'human chimera' research

The Endless Frontiers Act, a comprehensive bill sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., passed the Senate on Friday, leading some critics to point to a little-noticed move that could open a “Pandora's box” of unknown bioengineering with the help of federal funds.

The larger bill has 6 Republican and 7 Democratic Senate co-sponsors, according to congressional records. Bruce reported that $250 billion in the Endless Frontiers Act will be allocated to promote emerging technologies to help the U.S. better compete with Chinese innovation. But she also noted that some of that Chinese experimentation has included a successful endeavor in April to create human-monkey embryos that lasted 20 days in a laboratory. That news comes as the National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Disease and its leader, Dr. Anthony Fauci, have been under fire from lawmakers like Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that U.S. funding potentially has gone toward similarly dangerous Chinese experiments like gain-of-function research on coronaviruses. Fauci has denied NIAID's financial involvement in the Wuhan experiments.