The possibilities offered
by human cloning won't be so easily discarded and scientists can not just make cosy assumptions that their work will never be used or misused.
The public needs to hear, in language that nonscientists can understand, the potential scientific, moral, legal, and social benefits, as well as the potential threats, posed
by human cloning.
Not exact matches
The authors conclude
by raising what they consider to be «a broader ethical problem with OAR,» stating that this procedure amounts to nothing more than
human cloning with the additional twist of introducing a genetic mutation» ominously concluding that a «combination of wrongs can not make the end result good.»
Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed
by biological science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological experiments, the differences between
human and animal embryo development, the rapidity
by which the
cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological experiment that will prove with moral certainty that a
human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.
Ian Wilmut is now the professor of reproductive biology at the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University, and in February 2005 he was granted a licence
by the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to proceed to make human cl
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to proceed to make
human cl
human clones.
Were
cloning applied to animals - or to the
human animal - individual specimens might die, but a genetic identity would persist, «unconstrained
by a predetermined life cycle.»
It is not uncommon for even the better educated commentators to mention
human cloning and GM food in the same breath: scientists, they say, are playing God
by meddling with the stuff of life in this way.
If the American public had not yet heard of
human cloning or ACT
by the fall of 2001, it could hardly have missed the hype that began on 25 November that year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fearing that a rogue scientist might try to
clone humans, Senate leaders here today tried to close off debate and push through an anticloning bill drafted
by Senator Kit Bond (R - MO).
There should be a complete ban on the implantation of a
human embryo created
by the application of
cloning technology into a womb, or any treatment of such a
human embryo intended to result in its development into a viable infant.
In the US, President Bill Clinton responded
by asking the National Bioethics Advisory Commission to report on the ethical and legal issues relating to the
cloning not just of animals, but of
human beings.
A U.S. company has received two British patents that appear to grant it commercial rights to
human embryos created
by cloning.
Ko first
cloned the
human GT198 gene while a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and subsequent studies
by her and others have shown it has multiple roles that also include regulating stem cells, cell suicide and turning other genes off and on.
But after learning that work
by South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang had been faked, the journal Science retracted Hwang's landmark papers from 2004 and 2005, which reported the first
human embryonic stem cells from
cloned embryos.
There was a larger ideology here, I sensed, reeling away in muted horror, a sort of pan-Twinism that would, if greatly magnified
by the advent of
human cloning, possibly postpone its internecine bloodbath until it had dealt with the rest of us.
This journey began for me back in July, when Barbara Prainsack of the University of Vienna leapt from obscurity to the top slot on the Yahoo! Science headlines page
by announcing that
human clones, should we ever develop any and raise them to maturity, «would feel individuality.»
Two maverick scientists have unveiled their plan to produce the first
cloned human baby
by the end of 2002.
So for instance, the
human cloning, I would have guessed would be almost certain
by 2050; but in the reporting, it just seems like it's a very tough job to do.
Despite the controversy and the possibility of a worldwide ban on
human cloning by the United Nations, scientists in the United States and Britain are already moving forward with attempts to repeat the process.
The group, led
by Hwang Woo Suk at Seoul National University,
cloned human embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer, a process that biologists have used to
clone live animals.
Snuppy's creator, geneticist Woo Suk Hwang, had just been fired
by SNU for falsely claiming to have
cloned human embryos.
ACT announced last November that they had
cloned early - stage
human embryos in a step toward therapeutic
cloning (which seeks to treat diseases
by using genetic material from a patient's own cells) but the company believes that reproductive
cloning is too risky and unwarranted at this time.
Popular films such as Multiplicity feed these nightmares
by obscuring the fact that
cloning can not instantaneously yield a copy of an existing adult
human being.
The technique used
by Wilmut and his co-workers — a technology called somatic - cell nuclear transfer — will probably be the way in which the first
human clone will be created.
But the favored reprogramming technique, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), otherwise known as research
cloning, is fraught with ethical pitfalls as well as technical difficulties because it entails creating a
human embryo
by inserting an adult cell nucleus into an ooctye.
No one has yet shown success with SCNT using
human tissue: The closest effort so far has been the
cloned blastocyst reported last year
by workers at the Newcastle Fertility Centre in the U.K., but that did not yield ES cells.
But no one has yet succeeded in making
human embryonic stem cells
by cloning.
Cloning of the gene coding for a shared
human melanoma antigen recognized
by autologous T cells infiltrating into tumor.
Human PLIN2 and PLIN3 were cloned from a collection of anonymous unmarked samples (PLIN2), and from human peripheral lymphocytes (PLIN3) donated by a volunteer with a written consent in compliance with the legislation of the Czech Republic and European Union (Act No 372/2011 o
Human PLIN2 and PLIN3 were
cloned from a collection of anonymous unmarked samples (PLIN2), and from
human peripheral lymphocytes (PLIN3) donated by a volunteer with a written consent in compliance with the legislation of the Czech Republic and European Union (Act No 372/2011 o
human peripheral lymphocytes (PLIN3) donated
by a volunteer with a written consent in compliance with the legislation of the Czech Republic and European Union (Act No 372/2011 of 11.
Lloyd Old, Thierry Boon, and colleagues develop the TNF release assay for mouse systems in which release of TNF
by T cells could be used to assess specific T cell recognition, facilitating the
cloning of
human tumor antigens.
The
human genes for tumor necrosis factor (TNF - alpha), first identified
by Lloyd J. Old and Elisabeth A. Carswell in 1975, and LT (TNF - beta) are
cloned.
Clone 1022 cells ezpress
human CD4 protein on the cell surface and can be infected
by most isolates of HIV.
The paper points out that all
cloning is reproductive and reflects on the immediate outcome of
human cloning — a
human embryo — while examining the terminology used
by cloning advocates to obscure the facts.
A FLAG tag was introduced to the N - terminus of the
human Bach1 gene
by cloning the gene into a pFLAG - CMV - 6c vector (Sigma).
The topics covered
by LifeNews.com include abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia, bioethics issues such as
human cloning and stem cell research, campaigns and elections, and cultural legal and legislative issues as they affect the pro-life community.
Below is the full text of the Senate's letter, followed
by a summary of the legislation to ban
human reproductive
cloning and allow nuclear transplantation research to continue.
However, incorrectly identified ES cell
clones are occasionally encountered, either because of
human error or because a thawed ES cell line gets overgrown
by a contaminating ES cell line.
Pioneering work
by Barrandon and Green more than 20 years ago (2) showed that when primary
human keratinocytes were put in culture, their abilities to establish a
clone were related to the heterogeneity in cell size — only cells ≤ 11 μm in diameter could form a
clone whereas cells ≥ 12 μm were irreversibly committed to terminal differentiation.
DNA combined from the amplification of large insert
clones by use of these three primers and spotted onto glass slides showed more than a sixfold increase in the
human to E. coli hybridization ratio when compared to the standard DOP - PCR primer, 6MW.
His pioneering work in the fields of gene
cloning and expression of
human proteins has been the basis for five significant marketed therapeutics developed
by Genentech, including
human insulin,
human growth hormone, interferon - alpha, interferon - gamma and tissue plasminogen activator.
Fact sheet published
by the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) about cloning (human cloning, animal cloning, therapeutic cloning, etc.) The Apothecary is Forbes» acclaimed and influential blog on health care and entitlement reform, led by Forbes Opinion Editor Avik Roy (
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) about
cloning (
human cloning, animal cloning, therapeutic cloning, etc.) The Apothecary is Forbes» acclaimed and influential blog on health care and entitlement reform, led by Forbes Opinion Editor Avik Roy (
human cloning, animal
cloning, therapeutic
cloning, etc.) The Apothecary is Forbes» acclaimed and influential blog on health care and entitlement reform, led
by Forbes Opinion Editor Avik Roy (@avik
The screenwriters introduce a fascinating subplot, likening the
clones to slaves, each of whom are considered less than
human by their «masters.»
It may feature science fiction tropes such as being set in some alternate universe in which
human cloning existed since the 1960s as well as
clones being harvested for their organs, hardly an original idea (see the 1979 movie The Clonus Horror, which was understandably spoofed
by Mystery Science Theater 3000).
A
human clone banished to the dilithium mines of Remus, Shinzon was rescued
by a Reman Viceroy (Ron Perlman) and slowly brought to power.
Having turned the volume up to 11, however, that leaves more than 100 minutes to be filled with something, and so Robert Rodriguez and company have elected to do more of the same, stringing together bite - sized exploitation stand -
bys — beheadings, gushing blood, machine - gun brassieres, beheadings, martial arts performed
by clones, a ticking bomb sewn to a
human heart, beheadings, angry prostitutes, an undercover beauty queen, beheadings, Mexican jokes, Charlie Sheen as the U.S. President, Mel Gibson as a brilliant tech villain who claims he can see the future, and more beheadings — and pretending that the plot matters one iota.
No doubt that the ethical, theological, and philosophical questions engendered
by the prospect of
human cloning are the stuff of heated debate and interesting conundrums.
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Set in an alternate history in which scientists have found a way to greatly extend people's lives
by harvesting
human clones whose only purpose is to grow up and donate their vital organs, «Never Let Me Go» seems to be an allegory about the elusive nature of life and death.
Two days ago, seven
human clones — John, Michael, Father Thomas, Dr. Mike, Jay, Jack and Kilroy2.0 — were torn away from their «normal» lives to stop a ruthless plot created
by their progenitor, a man code - named John Alpha.
She says that something called drones will be used to watch the entire country, she talks a lot about something called nanotechnology, and 3 - dimensional printing and cellular phones being implanted into peoples» minds and all available careers being replaced
by robots and
human cloning and overpopulation and film becoming obsolete, cellular phones making regular telephones obsolete and LED lighting replacing everything and eventually she says that the planet will collapse and become an apathetic wreck,» Alecto replied rapidly, his run - on sentence sounding sinister and dangerous.