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...Cloning and stem cells...
...schedule a vote on a six-month moratorium on cloning into this year's docket (which was enthusiastically endorsed in the House pre-9/11). Apparently they prefer to wait until 2002 - when presumably everyone will have more time to debate the intellectually demanding subject matter. On the stem cell front, efforts of anti-abortion activists were also stymied by the terror attacks, when their congressional allies were forced to sideline challenges to President Bush's announcement that he will allow limited stem cell research...
Somewhat illogically, Germany, for example, permits the import of embryonic stem cells for research but bans the production of cloned embryos. Many countries are now contemplating relaxing such rules as the scientific possibilities and market potential become clearer...
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 diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, but many question the validity of ACT's results...
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 not yet been carried out in humans, although experiments on animals have shown promising results...