Sentences with phrase «clone early human embryos»
Scientists want to be able to clone early human embryos, using cells from patients with various diseases, so they can study the diseases in the lab and develop new treatments for them.
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Kass ably led the council members in a long debate on cloning, with the result that earlier this year they came out in opposition to human cloning but divided on the use of cloned embryos for research purposes.
The paper not only seemed to validate the group's claim a year earlier that it had created a single cell line from a cloned human embryo, but it also reported a huge increase in efficiency for the technique.
As cloning pioneers Rudolf Jaenisch and Ian Wilmut have argued, «if human cloning is attempted, those embryos that do not die early may live to become abnormal children and adults; both are troubling outcomes.»
Cloned early - stage human embryos — and human embryos generated only from eggs, in a process called parthenogenesis — now put therapeutic cloning within reach
Rather than clone humans, researchers take the early stage embryos that result from SCNT and then derive stem cells (pictured above, fluorescently tagged red).
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.
A team of scientists from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory created 13 early - stage human embryos that were partial genetic clones of diabetic patients.