Sentences with phrase «created human clones»

Has she created human clones of herself?
Opponents said that the measure should have banned somatic cell nuclear transfer; it criminalized only the «implantation» of an embryo into a woman to create a human clone.
There are other extremely specific — and extremely spoiler - y — details from the other books that make up the spine of film: for instance, that the psychologist Dr. Ventriss (Leigh) is dying of cancer; that she's actually the director of the Southern Reach; that this whole Area X business possibly started when a comet hit the lighthouse; and that there are aliens that can create human clones that they send out into the world.

Not exact matches

Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human - animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.
It allows cloning for the purpose of treating created human organism as a corn crop.
Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.
We can not, for instance, clone human beings to provide soldiers for the military or with the expectation that they will be great athletes or in an attempt to create a great musician or scientist.
The theological claim that only God can create human life is no less true if we learn to clone human beings than it is now.
I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.
After months of discussion, the group drafted a call to ban all human cloning and to limit ESCR to the use of the «excess» embryos created in the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Unlike the controversial method of tissue harvesting that requires some human embryos to be destroyed, the new cloning technique can use a patient's own skin cells — combined with an unfertilized human egg — to create tissue with a DNA match.
Scientists looking for new methods to make human tissue have successfully used cloning technology to create embryonic stem cells from skin cells.
An example is «I have a hypothesis that aliens cloned their DNA to create the first humans on planet Earth».
Additionally, we have chimerism where one person doesn't even have unique DNA throughout their body, not to mention forms of cloning that could potentially create creatures, including humans, with absolutely identical DNA.
If eve came from Adams rib, they would share DNA (logically Adam's rib would have been Adams clone, not Eve, but disregarding logic as one must in such cases) therefore the relationship would be incestuous and would create humans with significant handicaps and disabilities, if anything at all.
However, in 2007 Professor Wilmut announced that he had decided to change to an alternative method of research pioneered in Japan, known as direct reprogramming or «de-differentiation», which could create human embryonic cells without using human eggs or cloning human embryos.
Clonaid — closely tied to the Raelian sect, which believes aliens created humans and cloning is the gateway to immortality — is still in business.
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.
Varmus pointed out that a special review group he created in 1994 to give advice on embryo research had already judged human cloning to be «repugnant» — a view he endorsed.
Nayernia says trying this approach in humans would spark controversy as it would involve creating embryonic clones of infertile men: «If we used this method in the clinic, it would raise ethical concerns.»
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.
A U.S. company has received two British patents that appear to grant it commercial rights to human embryos created by cloning.
In May 2006, Eggan's lab received approval from Harvard to seek healthy human eggs from female donors, a first step toward using research cloning to create new stem cell lines.
Researchers who have developed cloning techniques in animals argued that cloning humans — even were it acceptable, in principle, to create children in this unorthodox manner — would be too risky in practice.
They view this as a test run for creating human embryonic stem cells in the same way (and according to the team, South Korean biologist Hwang Woo Suk seems to have accidentally accomplished this feat while executing his famously fraudulent human cloning experiment).
In 2006, Woo Suk Hwang had to retract two papers published in Science in which his team claimed it had used the technique employed in cloning Dolly the sheep to create human embryonic stem cells matched to specific people who had various diseases.
A new paper in the journal Cell claiming to have achieved breakthrough stem cell work — using cloning to create personalized human embryonic stem cells — is coming under serious scrutiny.
The result suggests that, although Hwang deceived the world about achieving the first human cloning, his group was first to succeed in performing human parthenogenesis, which may offer a way of creating cells that are genetically matched to a woman for transplantation back into her body to treat degenerative diseases.
Some fear that people may use cloning to produce a subordinate class of humans created as tissue or organ donors.
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.
One team in Japan, and another in the US, have independently shown it is possible to produce embryonic - like stem cells directly from a patient's own skin cells without having to create and destroy a cloned human embryo first.
For their seminal contributions to concepts and methods of creating a genetic map in the human, and of positional cloning, leading to the identification of thousands of human disease genes and ushering in the era of human genetics.
Though Hwang Woo - suk, a South Korean scientist claimed to have created the first human embryonic clone and derived a stem - cell line from it in 2004 his work was later shown to be fraudulent.
Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.
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.
After more debate, the government may change this allowing cloned human cells and embryos to be created for research purposes as long as they are destroyed after 14 days.
Several groups have concluded that reproductive cloning of human beings creates ethical and scientific risks that society should not tolerate.
Replicants were created as a clone workforce when humans started going off - planet.
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.
Creating, against all conventions on the use of human clones, the manipulants, shapeshifters.
The goggle wearing clones are seen as nothing more than expendable workers to the humans who created them, but that is all going to change in Stealth Inc 2 thanks to one adventurous clone that takes advantage of his human caretaker's greed and manages to escape certain doom.
Step into a trade show for a new species of hybrid, cloned humans, a new world created by mixed - media, multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk.
The unique nocturnal light, something in the shape of the vigilant animal, possibly exposed to danger, the glimmer of its hollow eyes in which human figures appear occasionally to be reflected — all of these elements along with the dense lines of the flickering «text,» create a disturbing feeling that something is amiss, perhaps the creature is artificial, maybe a cloned jackal, maybe a hybrid.
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