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This is a very good response to Cuomo.
I had not read about Professor George's advocacy for OAR. And I had forgotten the distinction between the different types of non-embryonic, but sorta-embryonic, stem cells such as this one and those advocated by Dr. Hurlbut.
Like Dr. Hurlbut's proposed, genetically altered artifacts, OAR appears to be the production of stem cells that skips the totipotent embryonic stage - they never are a complete entity, organized and with the nature that can develop into an independent organism. Neither would ever make a placenta, for example. Hurlbut's would be similar to a teratoma, OAR would be similar to a less-organized cancerous tumor. Both need to be tried in animal models before human donors are used.