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Scientists Move Closer to Human Therapeutic Cloning

"Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos. Scientists told a stem cell research conference in Cairns this week that they had successfully created two batches of embryonic stem cells from cloned rhesus monkey embryos."

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  1. Therapeutic? by Kingrames · · Score: 3, Funny

    Therapeutic Cloning?

    WTF is that supposed to mean?
    You're cloning yourself... to feel better?
    If you don't feel good, why clone yourself?

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    1. Re:Therapeutic? by niceone · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you don't feel good, why clone yourself?

      To have someone to share the misery with?

  2. Whew!! by rts008 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn good thing I like bananas, and trees, and Tarzan, and especially Jane!

    When the Labcoats attack you, prepare to fling the poo,
    Monkey see...Monkey do(doo)!

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  3. Therapeutic? I want a lover! by davidwr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, give me a clone
    Of my own flesh and bone
    With its Y-chromosome changed to X
    And when it is grown
    Then my own little clone
    Will be of the opposite sex.

    (Chorus)
    Clone, clone of my own,
    With your Y-Chromosome changed to X
    And when I'm alone
    With my own little clone
    We will both think of nothing but sex. -Randall Garrett, additional verses by Isaac Asimov

    Now can anyone accelerate the aging process? By the time she's 18 I could be dead.
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  4. Re:Which is worse by KDR_11k · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want a three-headed monkey!

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  5. Re:Which is worse by BigDogCH · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh the humanity!!!!

    That little glob could be the next OJ Simpson, or Professor Snape!

    If that is a human, than I think I may have just picked a human out of my nose this morning. Now I am going to find it, and call it Freddie.

    Every sperm is sacred! Save me Jebus!