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The South Koreans give us a new supply of stem cells!

BLARGistania
20-05-2005, 00:16
The article (http://nytimes.com/2005/05/19/science/19cnd-clone.html?hp&ex=1116561600&en=4e5c2458a5aa4a0f&ei=5094&partner=homepage)

(cross posted from A Far Cry Left (http://farcryleft.blogspot.com/))

I thought this was really neat. The South Koreans have produced an efficient means to clone a human embryo and then extract the stem cells out of the cloned embryo.

What this would do for stem cell research is tremendous. Instead of taking an embryo and emptying out its stem cells, the scientists now make a clone of that embryo and use the scientificly created twin for stem cells. There, the sanctity of life is not damaged and we get stem cells. What a great idea.

This has enormous potential to help and find cures for any sort of disease we may want to cure. Think about, a vast, almost inexhaustable supply of stem cells for research purposes. Lets get this moved through the ethics and procedural boards and get moving on curing those diseases!
BLARGistania
20-05-2005, 02:07
someone has to be interested in this stuff. . . [bump]
Straughn
20-05-2005, 02:17
There's many of us interested in this stuff. I think it was the 2000 Discover top science stories issue that had me smitten about this topic, and i've been interested ever since.
Hallelujah (not sarcasm)
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Lunatic Goofballs
20-05-2005, 02:19
Blah blah blah! Human cloning! Boo Hiss! Sanctity of life! An embryo is a person! AIEEE!!! MURDER! AIEEE!!! Christopher Reeve! Ronald Reagan! AIEEE!!!

There. I just summed up twenty pages of debate in five seconds. Carry on. :D
BLARGistania
20-05-2005, 02:22
Blah blah blah! Human cloning! Boo Hiss! Sanctity of life! An embryo is a person! AIEEE!!! MURDER! AIEEE!!! Christopher Reeve! Ronald Reagan! AIEEE!!!

There. I just summed up twenty pages of debate in five seconds. Carry on. :D

you missed this part: YOU'RE ALL WRONG AND I AM RIGHT!!!!!!!
Lunatic Goofballs
20-05-2005, 02:22
you missed this part: YOU'RE ALL WRONG AND I AM RIGHT!!!!!!!

That was the third 'blah'. :)
BLARGistania
20-05-2005, 02:23
That was the third 'blah'. :)
you lie.

HAVE AT YOU!
Lunatic Goofballs
20-05-2005, 02:32
you lie.

HAVE AT YOU!

Ha! I'm safe behind my impenetrable wall of human embryonic cells! You cannot touch me for fear of bringing the religious right down upon your melon head! :D
Ratheia
20-05-2005, 02:37
Impressive.
Hermiana
20-05-2005, 02:38
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Is it just me, or is a human being alive when it's just a few cells? It certainly isn't aware.. so how can it be bad to strip out stem cells from a single embryo? No one's dying because of it..
Anikian
20-05-2005, 02:40
Blah blah blah! Human cloning! Boo Hiss! Sanctity of life! An embryo is a person! AIEEE!!! MURDER! AIEEE!!! Christopher Reeve! Ronald Reagan! AIEEE!!!

There. I just summed up twenty pages of debate in five seconds. Carry on. :D
Now all of the fun is gone!

Well, I don't think the sanctity of life staying flies. I treat sentient life at the barrier point, so a fetus's death isn't a violation of the sanctity of life, but to someone who does feel so, even the clone is a living organism no differently from the original. At least, that's how I think it would be; depending on your view of the clone it's humanity is debateable.