Man’s embryo successfully cloned in US

US scientists say they have produced embryos that are clones of two men, in an attempt to produce patient-specific stem cells. Researchers removed DNA from donated human eggs, and replaced it with DNA from the skin cells of two volunteers. They produced embryos with genetic material that matched the men’s, but did not go on to extract stem cells. The team at Stemagen Corporation in La Jolla, California, says the work could be an important step to developing embryonic stem cells for patients. They produced five embryos called blastocysts from 25 donated eggs. DNA fingerprinting proved that at least one of these was a clone.

“We’re the first in the world to take adult human cells and then document that in fact we were able to clone embryos from them,” lead researcher Dr Samuel Wood told the BBC. He said the embryos were destroyed in the process of verifying they were clones, but they were now working on creating stem cell lines. Dr Lyle Armstrong of Newcastle University is one of a handful of other researchers who have made cloned human embryos using a technique known as nuclear transfer pioneered in Dolly the sheep. Unlike the US team, the Newcastle group used DNA from embryonic rather than mature tissue. Dr Armstrong said the US study showed that the objective of using cells from an adult person to make individual stem cells might one day be possible. Are you ready for Me, Myself v2.0?

Source: BBC

choggie says...

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaiah 14:12-14

Why the flock, do we need to make humans in a lab? To extract stemmage so crippled humans can walk? To grow new livers for humans who either destroyed their own voluntarily or whose genetic predisposition gave them a shitty one from the git-go? Hello??!! All ya evolutionary rejects are supposed to be weeded outta the mix, not given more time with which to make more of ya!

I have a better solution to the worlds ills.....2/3rds of her current population, simply go away....the planet will be sooooooo happy-

choggie says...

Here's a start....
Burning Man WTO

"Next year, an effigy of the worlds economy will be erected in Brussels, using the bodies of CEO's and Presidents of Petroleum and Pharmaceutical companies, and launched into the upper atmosphere, using a battery of V2 Rockets, lashed together by hippies using environmentally-copasetic recycled products."

This won't change anything, we are all still going to eventually kill ourselves, but it will help to control the population of assholes on the planet.

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