Ping!
I guess he never heard that phrase about stuffing the toothpaste back into the tube.
Getting away from Nazi science. Nazi scientists were allowed to do anything, were bound by no ethical considerations. But their work led to nothing, or almost no positive results.
I never knew the cloned sheep aged too rapidly and had to be euthanised. Interesting.
Elsewhere on FR they are talking about cloning an extinct Wooly Mamouth. If they needed 300 attempts to clone Dolly (a readily available sheep)and the attempts resulted in many deformed and unsuitable offspring, I wonder what it would take to clone an extinct wooly mamouth? And where would they obtain additional genetic material after the first attempts failed? The question still begs, WHY? At what COST? Aren’t there better ways to use research dollars?
Back at the beginning of the whole attempt to push embryonic stem cell research, I objected on a purely scientific basis, while intentionally leaving out any mention of morality.
My objection back then was that embryos are basically masses of rapidly growing cells, receiving all kinds of instructions from each other and their environment. These instructions constrain the cells to grow only in the ways that lead to the embryo becoming a mature organism. Removing those cells from the context of an embryonic organism and injecting them into a mature organism basically removes all of the instructions that tells the cells how to grow, but leaves them in the rapidly growing state. In other words, the idea that these cells would be highly likely to form tumors when removed from the embryo is extremely predictable.
The fact that many tumors have inappropriately active genes that are normally turned off during fetal development, makes the prediction that embryo cells outside of the embryo might form tumors even stronger.
Just think of it. If the Democrats could clone Alec Baldwin, why, we could have an asshole on every plane.
Did I miss where the author defined what “iPS” means?