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Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones

Posted by Zonk on from the my-precious-organs! dept.

catbutt writes "Wired News reports that South Korean scientists have made a dramatic breakthrough by deriving stem cells from cloned embryos of patients with spinal cord injuries. It shouldn't be long before we can expect have a set of replacement parts ready when our own wear out." From the article: "Researchers must test the cells in animals before they can try the therapy in humans. But embryonic stem-cell researchers were shocked and delighted by the advance, which many had referred to as a distant possibility until they saw this study by Woo Suk Hwang and his colleagues at Seoul National University, which appears in the May 20 issue of Science."

6 of 594 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Life starts at conception by 3.5+stripes · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How is a cloned embryo a human life?

    Would anyone ever let one finish gestation, grow up, get a job and have kids of it's own?

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  2. Re:Life starts at conception by oscast · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    People have different ideas as to the sky being blue too it doesn't change the fact that the sky is still blue.

  3. Re:Life starts at conception by c-reality · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are better ways to gather stem cells than from an embryo. Adult stem cells are a better alternative, so why not push forward with research there? You're not skirting any moral lines, and you have more potential. I guess my ultimate question is WHY NOT dump embryo research and head towards alternatives? Why the focus on embryos (life)?

  4. Re:Soylent Green is people by kmmatthews · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Hey idiot boy, try reading the article. They're not talking about cloning a human to kill them and take thier organs, christ-all-fucking-mighty.

    You create the specific PART.

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  5. Stem Cell Farms by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since they can do so much good to mankind, why not just create 'farms' to harvest stem cells as we need them.

    There are plenty of undesireables we can use to populate the 'farm'.

    Just think of all the wonderful things we can do to help the people in need.

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  6. that just shows... by argStyopa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    those silly, stupid American conservatives.

    Those IDIOTS said that if you federally funded stem cell research using new human-derived cell lines, it would just be a slippery slope from that to the point where people would be created just to be exploited, like creating clones so that we could disassemble them for their useful parts.

    What craziness was that, huh? I guess we've shown them!

    I mean, everyone knows that clones aren't REALLY humans, and aren't entitled to life, liberty, those sorts of things.

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