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To: ransomnote
I adhere to the premise in Robert Heinlein's Friday that artificial persons have no rights.
30 posted on 09/11/2019 4:18:13 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: IndispensableDestiny

The scientists involved understand that this procedure can not successfully be used to produce embryos that would be allowed to fully develop into a human fetus. The fertilization process for all placental mammals including humans requires special epigenetic imprinting from the male germ cell (sperm) that is critical to the normal differentiation of embryo cells. The imprinting stimulates the production of specific enzymes and structures that don’t happen with an induced pluripotent stem cell (IPSC) by itself.

Without this material the fetus is potentially non-viable or, if born, would suffer serious medical conditions that would shorten its life significantly. This was discovered as a result of cloning other animals. The first generation if it survives at all is not healthy. If this animal is then bred naturally the normal fetus resets all the epigenetic controls and is fully functional. No scientist would ever be allowed to treat humans this way.


32 posted on 09/11/2019 4:39:12 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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