Word: cloned
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...biological Rubicon had been crossed. Newspapers across the country, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times, put the story on the front page, and U.S. News & World Report splashed it on the cover, proclaiming THE FIRST HUMAN CLONE in big, bold type...
...life politicians were quick to denounce the experiment. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican, vowed to try to get the Senate to approve a bill before Christmas prohibiting human cloning. "The use of embryos to clone is wrong," declared President George Bush. "We should not as a society grow life to destroy...
...that's really what this kind of cloning is about. "Our intention is not to clone human beings," insists ACT medical director Dr. Robert Lanza. Instead, the company's goal is to make embryonic stem cells, the so-called starter cells that can turn into any sort of body tissue, from brain to bone to blood. In theory, stem cells might be used to treat any disease in which cell death is a factor: diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, paralysis, stroke and more. And while stem cells can be harvested from aborted fetuses, that source is abhorrent to abortion...
...affect ACT, which is privately funded, but stem cells from aborted fetuses are problematic in any case. Like any foreign tissue, they can trigger rejection; ideally, doctors would prefer to get stem cells from a patient's own body. The most direct way to do that is through cloning, and ACT scientists took the first steps in that direction by two different techniques. In one, they stimulated an unfertilized egg to begin dividing on its own. In the other, they removed the nucleus from a donated egg and inserted that of an adult--the same method used to produce Dolly...
Trumpeting the scientific breakthroughs that might accompany such research—cures for Parkinson’s! For Alzheimer’s! For diabetes! For mortality itself!—the usual voices are clamoring for a limited ban on reproductive cloning, accompanied by increased government oversight and support for the “therapeutic” variety. These forward-looking types—The New York Times and the Washington Post, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the pharmaceutical companies who stand to make a killing, quite literally—envision a world where it will be perfectly legal...