Ethical storm as scientist becomes first man to clone HIMSELF

Daily Mail ^ | 18th January 2008 | FIONA MACRAE

[Squidpup]

A scientist has achieved a world first... by cloning himself.

In a breakthrough certain to provoke an ethical furore, Samuel Wood created embryo copies of himself by placing his skin cells in a woman's egg.

The embryos were the first to be made from cells taken from adult humans.

Although they survived for only five days and were smaller than a pinhead, they are seen as a milestone in the quest for treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

But critics fear the technology could be exploited by mavericks to clone babies and accused the scientists of reducing the miracle of human life to a factory of spare parts.

Researchers from the Californian stem cell research company Stemagen employed the same technique used to make Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, to create the embryos.

They took eggs donated by young women having IVF and replaced genetic material with DNA from the skin cells of two men.

[Squidpup]

Full of himself

[Squidpup]

via Drudge btw

[massgopguy]

But is he Dr. Funkenstein?

[weegee]

He misunderstood when someone told him “go procreate yourself”.

[Vaquero]

someone must have told him “go clone yourself!”

despite the ethical considerations, I can’t see the genie being put back in the bottle anymore than it happened with nuclear weapons.

[Froufrou]

“...reducing the miracle of human life to a factory of spare parts.”

OMG, is there no end to this garbage?

[Cvengr]

Then again, how do we know it isn’t the CLONE who is performing the tests on the original, who may not have ever been publicized?

[capt. norm]

This would launch a whole new epithet:

"Oh, go clone yourself!"

[absolootezer0]

[OB1kNOb]

But is he Dr. Funkenstein?

"That's FunkenstEEn!"

[capt. norm]

I see we're all pretty much 'on the same channel' here.

Why not? Great minds think alike....especially when they are free to do so.

[capt. norm]

"No matter what happens or what I might say, DO NOT OPEN THAT DOOR!"

[ASA Vet]

Skin clone thread from today
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955231/posts

skin clone thread from yesterday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955612/posts

skin clone thread from Nov 20^th
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928528/posts

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

You called?

[Squidpup]

That was a great movie - should have done much better

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Geeez. Have you seen the photo in today’s USAToday of Wilder. He did not age well...

[Froufrou]

This guy cloned himself.

[DannyTN]

"Although they survived for only five days "

So by cloning himself prior to the technology being ready, this man has murdered himself 5 times. And yet, he lives and is not eligible for a Darwin.

[Minipax]

[ASA Vet]

I certainly wouldn't waste my bucks and time doing that.
Who the heck would want more of me messing up the world.