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Over the next few months, the University’s ethics review board will consider what should be one of the easiest decisions they will make: Two teams of researchers affiliated with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have requested permission to clone human cells to conduct stem cell research. This is a request that the University, and indeed humanity, can not afford to see denied...
...theory, it would be possible to clone a person by implanting that person’s cloned embryo in a woman’s uterus. Numerous animal studies indicate, however, that it is unlikely to work in the sense of producing normal individuals. Aside from the scientific limitations, responsible policy choices can eliminate the possibility of reproductive cloning in practice. Given simple and strict legislation and oversight, the line between reproductive cloning and nuclear transfer is clear and enforceable. Just because someone might abuse a technology to do harm against all odds and in defiance of the law surely should...
While the Bush administration has banned the use of federal fundsfor research on new stem cell lines, South Korean researchers announced in February the first documented stem cell extraction from cloned human embryos. And British researchers are currently working to clone human cells...
It’s time for the cyber-networking-clone wars to stop. These sites were supposed to be about building community. Unfortunately, when there is money to be made, that fact is so easily overlooked...
Stojkovic, who fled Yugoslavia in 1991 just before the Balkan wars broke out, is on the front lines of the cloning wars. He helped clone mammals at the University of Munich before going to Britain. Now, using a technique similar to one recently demonstrated in South Korea, he plans to create embryos by injecting a patient's DNA into an egg from which the genetic material has been removed. He then hopes to harvest the embryonic stem cells--which can develop into almost any organ--and coax them to produce insulin in diabetics. Stem cells may also hold promise...