Harvard Scientists to Clone Human Embryos

An anonymous reader writes "Harvard University scientists claim they will soon start trying to clone human embryos to create stem cells. Even with the history of controversy and fraud researchers hope they can one day use the newly created stem cells to aid in battle against many diseases. From the article: 'The privately funded work is aimed at devising treatments for such ailments as diabetes, Lou Gehrig's disease, sickle-cell anemia and leukemia. Harvard is only the second American university to announce its venture into the challenging, politically charged research field.'"

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Stem Cell Story == Troll.

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

An anonymous reader writes

"Harvard University scientists claim they will soon start trying to submit non-troll stem cell stories to Slashdot. Even with the history of controversy and fraud researchers hope they can one day use the newly created non-troll stem cells story submission to aid in battle against trollery. From the article: 'The privately funded work is aimed at devising treatments for stem-cell submission trolls. Harvard is only the second American university to announce its venture into the challenging, politically charged research field.' Unfortunately, at this stage, non-troll stem-cell stories submissions on slashdot remain a technical impossibility"

Re:Baby killers [Re: br. morality in...]

[ElleyKitten]

And even if you think cloning humans is morally acceptable, the practice of killing the "superflous" embryos (note the language! Imagine you are suddenly considered "superfluous") that are created in the process by dumping them in the bin can be equated to murder (read: intentional killing of a human being).

Then shut down all the fertility clinics, because they do this more than any science lab.

But pro-lifers won't do that, because they're dumb and just say things like "but fertility clinics create life!" ignoring the fact that they create too much and wind up throwing away more embryos than are aborted.