HUMAN STEM CELLS CLONED

sky news ^ | Last Updated: 14:59 UK, Thursday February 12, 2004

[gdyniawitawa]

Stem cells have been obtained from a cloned human embryo for the first time by scientists in South Korea.

The breakthrough is being seen as a significant step towards growing patients' own replacement tissue to treat degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

The team took genetic material from volunteer women and combined it with their eggs. The resulting embryo was then cultured to produce the cells.

The experiment - the first published report of cloned human stem cells - means so-called therapeutic cloning is no longer a theory but a reality.

Grow-your-own organs

Supporters of medical cloning say it can transform medicine and may eventually lead to grow-your-own organ transplants as the stem cells taken from the tiny embryos, known as blastocysts, have the potential to develop into any kind of cell or tissue in the body.

Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University in Korea, who led the study, said in a statement: "Our approach opens the door for the use of these specially developed cells in transplantation medicine."

But critics say it involves destroying a human embryo, however tiny, and is therefore unethical US President Bush is seeking to outlaw the technology both in the US and worldwide.

Writing in the journal Science, Hwang and colleagues said they created the clone using eggs and cells donated by Korean women. They cloned each woman using her own egg and cells, so the clones were 100% copies of each woman.

Baby cloning fears

In the past, scientists have cloned sheep, cattle, mice and other species but have had trouble cloning a human being.

Last year a Massachusetts company, Advanced Cell Technology, said it had created a human cloned embryo but it had not grown enough to become a source of stem cells.

Dr Robert Lanza, who has helped lead cloning experiments at Advanced Cell Technology said it is now important that laws be passed banning reproductive cloning - using cloning to create a human baby.

He noted that some researchers, notably Kentucky fertility expert Dr Panos Zavos, have been trying to clone a baby.

Dr Lanza said: "He's got the cookbook now. It's scary. We really need to move as soon as possible."

[Gunslingr3]

all part of His plan

[MD_Willington_1976]

Get a sample of their buddy to the north and then you can buy a "Grow your own Dictator" kit from CHia pet this Christmas...

[hocndoc]

Remember that an embryo is a human being. These scientists have cloned human beings for the express purpose of killing and harvesting the human being for his or her parts.

While the embryo that is cloned is not produced by fertilization, and while no woman is pregnant during his or her short life, there is no doubt about the species of the embryo. The fact that the embryos - at least a few of the 230+ that were begun - developed to the blastocyst stage proves that he or she was alive.

Which of us is wise enough to decide which human being is worthy of life and which is/are either worthless or only worth as much as our various useful parts?

[Diamond]

I also posted an article about this evil here because I couldn't help but notice the unmitigated glee of the scientists interviewed on National Proletariat Radio over this event of cloning human beings.

I said that
The deliberate creation of human beings for the purpose of destroying them in order to 'benefit' others is an indescribably hideous evil. Here they created 30 human beings and then they killed them. The hubris of these scientists who experiment on other human beings makes me wonder who actually won WWII. They think they are immune from any restraint of moral law, and from future judgment.

It's just a more modern form of cannibalism.

Cordially,

[hocndoc]

Exactly: cannibalism.
Good job.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[Mr. Silverback]

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[MHGinTN]

Stem cells were not cloned, because stem cells are sub-parts of an entire organism ... THE ENTIRE INDIVIDUAL HUMAN WAS CLONED, BUT KILLED FOR HER BODY PARTS under the euphemism of cloning stem cells! Typical lying journalism. [And if any doofus wants to challenge that statement that 'HER' body parts were taken, know this: the embryo's sex can be discovered--because she or he is already an individual human organism--even before implantation in a uterus or dissection in a lab! [More info available at THIS LINK.]

[MHGinTN]

One last note: the scientists and NPR and the media want you to believe the embryo is merely pieces/parts, not an entire organism; you reading this are a whole organism with many parts, and the embryo, if it is alive is a WHOLE HUMAN ORGANISM, albeit with fewer working parts than an adult (but that is true for prepubescent toddlers, also) but nevertheless an individual human organism. If you can be manipulated to believe these embryos are less than an individual human organism, the ghouls will be successful in gaining your tacit agreement to support the cannibalism.