Reprogrammed Skin Cells Turned Into Baby Mice

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 26, 2009 @09:57AM from the finally-tim-can-reproduce dept.

InfiniteZero writes "According to this WSJ story, 'Two teams of Chinese researchers working separately have reprogrammed mature skin cells of mice to an embryonic-like state and used the resulting cells to create live mouse offspring. The reprogramming may bring scientists one step closer to creating medically useful stem-cell lines for treating human disease without having to resort to controversial laboratory techniques. However, the advance poses fresh ethical challenges because the results could make it easier to create human clones and babies with specific genetic traits.'"

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Re:others trying to force their morales on us by Antique+Geekmeister · 2009-07-26 14:29 · Score: 0, Troll

Good. Your moral code won't bother me at all as I raid your bank account for money, and your body for organs, for anyone I care to heal.
Morals are _always_ tied to medical treatment, or you're just having fun doing research and can't be bothered to check your results or avoid killing your patients.