Tuesday, February 3. 2009Human reproductive cloning "inevitable"... just not with animal eggsTrackbacks
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The place to interfere is with the practice of harvesting oocytes. We need restrictions on what researchers are allowed to do to women and what they are allowed to do to the children of these women.
Good grief - I'm not sure how to talk about the entities they create. in the lab. However, as long as we don't know, we shouldn't be creating them. Did you notice the lack of information on what happened - what was done or is being done - to the living embryos?
I am assuming they destroyed them because that is the current battle cry: "only for research." But with ACT anything is possible...
P.S. Nice to hear from you!
From the story: "His team compared the gene expression of a human embryo produced through in vitro fertilization with clones that incorporated human, cow, rabbit and mouse eggs. Several thousand genes were active in the *fully human clones*, but almost completely silent in their counterparts, which stopped developing after several days."
Just so I'm clear here, these people were also cloning human embryos during this research?
Yes, the report implies that about 50 fully human clones were produced and that 39% of them continued fairly normal or fully normal development.
First get a clue what your saying!They have an ethical technology and your bashing them is uncalled for.Do some indepth research and learn biology also.ACTC is the leader in ethical approaches.You must have them confused with stem.
If you do not think that there are ethical issues with cloning human embryos and allowing them to develop just to study them and then destroying them anyway or there are no ethical issues with cloning human embryos with animal eggs and finding out they can't develop normally, then I do not think it is I that needs to do some "indepth" research.
Do you refer to Advanced Cell Technologies? Weren't they found to have fabricated press releases about allegedly isolating human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryos, when it was found that all of the embryos, in fact, perished? Does that qualify as ethical to you?
Time for all of you to update your "facts". ACT HAS developed therareutic embryonic stem cells WITHOUT destroying any embryos years ago, using the same in vitro technique used to extract a single cell from the blastocyte at the 8-cell stage. This DOES NOT harm the blastocyte in any way. ACT is in no way involved in cloning humans. The general public completely misunderstood what ACT was actually doing in 2001. What ACT IS doing is taking a single cell derived from the 8-cell blastocyte and cloning that single cell. That single cell is no more a human being than one of your skin cells, which you shed my the millions on a daily basis.
People need to overcome unfounded fear based on ingnorance, and the best way to do that is to EDUCATE YOURSELF.
You are the one who needs to educate yourself. There is no way every single embryo that is biopsied using ACT's technique survives the process AND there is no way biopsying embryos does not affect them adversely. Studies in mouse models are showing embryo biopsy increases risk of neurological disorders. (http://phys.org/news167399961.html) The authors of have called for more studies to assess the risk of embryo biopsy.
Also, yes a skin cell is just a skin cell. But when you remove the skin cell's nucleus and then transfer that nucleus to an enucleated egg, you have created, at least some percentage of the time, a cloned human embryo indistinguishable from an IVF embryo. Embryonic stem cell pioneer James Thomson has called the attempt to define away cloning as something other than the creation of an embryo as "disingenuous." Thomson stated about therapeutic cloning by nuclear transfer: "See, you’re trying to define it away, and it doesn’t work. If you create an embryo by nuclear transfer, and you give it to somebody who didn’t know where it came from, there would be no test you could do on that embryo to say where it came from. It is what it is. It’s true that they have a much lower probability of giving rise to a child. … But by any reasonable definition, at least at some frequency, you’re creating an embryo. If you try to define it away, you’re being disingenuous." ACT has attempted to create cloned human embryos using nuclear transfer therefore they have conducted human cloning research. |
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