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And 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...
That ban doesn't 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...
When U.S. biotech firm advanced Cell Technology announced last week that it had cloned the first human embryo, Europeans greeted the news with a mixture of interest, suspicion and revulsion. Scientists are keen to explore cloning as a potential source of embryonic stem cells, which could be used to treat...
Central to the debate is the distinction between therapeutic and reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning would be performed to harvest embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to grow into a variety of other cell types. These cells could then be implanted into patients to replace defective ones. Such procedures have...
Reproductive cloning, which involves inserting a person's genetic material into an egg and allowing the egg to develop into a fetus, would be performed with the goal of bringing a cloned baby to term. Last week the U.K. rushed through emergency legislation banning reproductive cloning after a legal loophole...