S.Korea cloning expert criticizes Bush

Woo-Suk Hwang, the head of a team of South Korean scientists who cloned the first human embryo to use for research said in an interview with Reuters that stem cell science will advance because of its enormous potential, and will not be halted by political interests.

Some bioethics specialists said that Hwang's lab is not creating humans. "There is no reason to believe one of those things could ever become a human being," wrote David Magnus and Mildred Cho in a commentary for the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics in California.

I wonder if torturers or concentration camp guards use similar sorts of reasoning.

Christopher Reeve arrives at South Park to show how stem-cell research has helped him gain more and more mobility. He sucks on dead fetuses to get at their stem cells, thereby becoming able to move his hands, then his arms, then his legs, then his entire body. He keeps at it until he becomes superhuman once again, but became Gene Hackman's nemesis when Hackman came to stop him from taking stem cells any longer. Somehow, Hackman trapped Reeve in a pane of glass and had him launched into space. Doctor Doom was one of the supervillains to talk when Reeve gathered the supervillains together to stop Gene Hackman (Saddam and Professor Chaos were the other two to speak). The Legion of Doom never got the chance to stop Hackman.

The biggest hurdle for cloning/embryonic stem cell is that no one knows what exactly is the function of the gel like structure outside of the nucleus within the cell and how it interfaces with the chromosomes in the function of developing live tissue or individual. The first cloned sheep had a short life expectancy and it was not fully functional (acted a bit retarded). Currently cloning and similiar techniques strip the nucleus of the original chromosomes and add tailored chromosones to the blank nucleus. Animal grown from this techniques have died early and were slightly deficient in functional capability. Some scientists think there might be a coordinated process between the gel structure with the original chromosomes that makes a cell fully functional and durable. The original chromosomes in the nucleus were already optimized with the gel structure. Ripping them out and placing tailored chromosomes will destablilize this optimization. That is one theory explaining why adult stem cell work and embryonic stem cells are having problems. Before the Korean scientists boasts and lectures GWB, he needs to grow viable tissue, emplace it in the patient and not have complications (function and durability). The MSM is not doing a service to the public by ignoring this technical hurdle in cloning and embryonic stem cell process. They are using this issue to attack Christian morality and GWB, and forcing states to spend money on a technology that needs to prove itself. Ironicly it may take funds away from the successful adult stem cell process and give it to a technology that may not succeed. Think of all the people who may die waiting for adult stem cell products because funds that may accelerate its production is not available because it is sunk into the premature embryonic stem cell programs due to MSM and political pressure.

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