There are sources of human stem cells other than killing human embryos. Given the current belief that human embyonic stem cells cannot replicate indefinately, they are actually a poor source of the genetic material.
(Sidebar: there are very, very, very few human cells which can replicate endlessly. I don't remember the anem of the woman from whom one strain was harvested and is used for bio research. Virtually all cells have a limit to the number of tiems they can split.)
There are stem cells and the stem cells. There are many levels of specialization on which stem cells may be. The idea to harvest embryos is to get stem cells that are on the lowest possible specialization level.
You are saying that very few cells may replicate endlessly? Correct! But we don't need endless replication. De facto I, being about 95 kgs now, was produced from 2 little cells, one invisible to human eye and the 2nd one barely visible. And from those 2 little cells i got as big as i am now, and many cells died in the meantime, trust me.
We want to reproduce this effect, but in the lab only, to be able to help people, who are already living. I don't care about those 30 cells/embryo i will have to kill to accomplish this (ok, maybe lil more). The same way i should be sorry every time I am using any method of contraception... and I'm not.
IMHO if you are against killing those poor little embryos, just don't agree to have your spinal column fixed in case of accident... but let the others (and I mean humans, as in "born humans") live.
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You are saying that very few cells may replicate endlessly? Correct! But we don't need endless replication. De facto I, being about 95 kgs now, was produced from 2 little cells, one invisible to human eye and the 2nd one barely visible. And from those 2 little cells i got as big as i am now, and many cells died in the meantime, trust me.
We want to reproduce this effect, but in the lab only, to be able to help people, who are already living.
I don't care about those 30 cells/embryo i will have to kill to accomplish this (ok, maybe lil more). The same way i should be sorry every time I am using any method of contraception... and I'm not.
IMHO if you are against killing those poor little embryos, just don't agree to have your spinal column fixed in case of accident... but let the others (and I mean humans, as in "born humans") live.
Maybe just ddos software will be included with new windows, with deeply hidden opt-out option? :/
I think MS could be capable of doing that.