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Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, could conjure up several equally defensible ways in which cloning human embryos might be medically appropriate. Suppose, for example, a woman knew she was about to become sterile, either because of chemotherapy or through exposure to toxic...
The experiment at the center of the controversy seems, in many ways, unworthy of the hoopla. It is not the Jurassic Park-type cloning most people think of, in which genetic material from a mature individual -- or DNA from an extinct dinosaur -- is nurtured and grown into a living replica...
But some couples cannot produce more than one embryo, perhaps because the man's semen is in short supply or the woman's ovaries are running out of eggs or do not respond well to hormone treatments designed to stimulate them into superovulating (producing large numbers of eggs on demand...
In fact, Hall and Stillman were totally taken aback by the furor they created. TIME correspondent Ann Blackman asked Hall if he feared that his work would create a backlash against this kind of research. "I revere human life," said Hall, his voice choking with emotion. "I respect people's...
That is certainly the least controversial of the technology's potential applications. In the TIME/CNN poll, Americans were evenly split on whether they approved or disapproved of cloning for this purpose. If it works -- and that is still a big if -- it could probably find a market among infertility patients...