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Harvard to Clone Human Embryos?

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 13, 2004 @07:19PM from the me-and-more-me dept.

Lifix writes ""Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research, potentially becoming the first researchers in the nation to wade into a divisive area of study that has become a presidential campaign issue."

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Re:Human cloning... by tukkayoot · 2004-10-14 02:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

You say "..."perfect" human for soldiers" you seem to forget that you would need to find a mother to carry the child and then raise it for 18 years and then train it! I think the training part would "make" the soldier, not the lab!
Yeah, but the Dominion could create Jem'Hadar warriors that didn't need a mother to give birth to them, and they aged at an accelerated rate to adulthood, and were genetically engineered to be obedient, effective soldiers a week or so after their creation.
Could we be going down the same road?
Think about it.