...these researchers better watch out. Crazed anti abortion zealots have bombed clinics before. I personally hope that they can use this research for the good of Humanity.
I admit to being biased having one cousin suffering from a degenerative brain disorder going from "normal" at the age of six to degenerating to a bed ridden shell of a human being who can't even make a bowel movement without assistance now in his early forties. He can barely speak coherently now and is getting progressively worse. Another cousin has MS. If this research can rid the world of these afflictions then go right ahead clone as many embryos as you need for therapeutic research. After all they aren't trying to grow people, just healthy cells with the same genetic "signature" as the host.
The real trick I would think is in resequencing out the problems in the new cells, but that's what the Human Genome Project is for.
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...these researchers better watch out. Crazed anti abortion zealots have bombed clinics before. I personally hope that they can use this research for the good of Humanity. I admit to being biased having one cousin suffering from a degenerative brain disorder going from "normal" at the age of six to degenerating to a bed ridden shell of a human being who can't even make a bowel movement without assistance now in his early forties. He can barely speak coherently now and is getting progressively worse. Another cousin has MS. If this research can rid the world of these afflictions then go right ahead clone as many embryos as you need for therapeutic research. After all they aren't trying to grow people, just healthy cells with the same genetic "signature" as the host. The real trick I would think is in resequencing out the problems in the new cells, but that's what the Human Genome Project is for.