Word: embryos
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Last week, the Senate voted against a Republican bill that would have permanently outlawed a process by which the nucleus of a human somatic cell is inserted into an egg cell to create a human embryo...
...implanted into a female uterus, this embryo could be used to create a human clone...
...Kennedy-Feinstein bill faces potential opposition from senators who argue that the creation and destruction of a human embryo, even in a research setting, is analogous to an abortion...
Cloning could be vital to that process. At present, introducing genes into chromosomes is very much a hit-or-miss proposition. Scientists might achieve the result they intend once in 20 times, making the procedure far too risky to perform on a human embryo. Through cloning, however, scientists could make 20 copies of the embryo they wished to modify, greatly boosting their chance of success...
...then create them? The Texas researchers want to learn how genes determine embryo development. But you don't have to be a genius to see the true utility of manufacturing headless creatures: for their organs--fully formed, perfectly useful, ripe for plundering...