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Stanford Jumps Into Cloning Fray

Posted by michael on from the splitting-hairs dept.

smackthud writes "According to this article in the Minneapolis StarTribune website Stanford University is planning to clone human embryos. Story summary says it all: 'Stanford University announced today its intention to clone human embryos, becoming the first U.S. university to publicly embrace the politically charged procedure. The intent of the project is to produce stem cells for medical research.'" Stanford has released a statement distinguishing what Stanford is doing from reproductive cloning.

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  1. victory, you say? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Begun, this clone war has......

  2. cloning by matt4077 · · Score: 4, Funny

    cloning, nature's way of saying: imagine a beowulf cluster of yourself!

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    Fleur de Sel
  3. Cloning? Cloning? by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is the world coming to?
    What is the world coming to?

  4. sole less minion of orthodoxy? by cat_jesus · · Score: 4, Funny
    (sole if you want to put it in one word, even though I do not belive in the sole idea).
    What? No sole for you? You don't wear shoes?