Dolly Scientist Gets Human Cloning License (Creator, blood, abortion, Christ)

[Pah]

Dolly Scientist Gets Human Cloning License
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LONDON (AP) - The British government on Tuesday gave the creator of Dolly the Sheep a human cloning license for medical research....The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which regulates such research, approved the license for Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly at Scotland's Roslin Institute in 1996.

Such work, called therapeutic cloning because it does not result in a baby, is opposed by abortion foes and other biological conservatives because researchers must destroy human embryos to harvest the cells.

Wilmut and motor neuron expert Christopher Shaw of the Institute of Psychiatry in London plan to clone cells from patients with the incurable muscle-wasting disease, derive blank-slate stem cells from the cloned embryo, make them develop into nerve cells and compare their development with nerve cells derived from healthy embryos.

[Scorn]

I wonder what would happen in this field of research if we were to draw a line, perhaps a step or two beyond this point and say, "That's it we go no farther", allowing researchers globally to open the door and rush in. What would be solved in 50 years, that under the current climate (of severly limiting stem cell research) would take up to tens times longer or more. Of course my figures are based on nothing but I think you get my drift. Even if it was say just for fifty years, then pull back to current levels of stem cell research and stem cell harvesting.

[painted wolf]

heres hoping something good comes from it. It was naturally only a matter of time, like organ transplants and blood transfusions.

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