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Therapeutic Cloning: Simple Illustration

Therapeutic cloning is otherwise called as Cell Nuclear Replacement or CNR. The name comes from the process which involves "taking the genetic material from the cell of a donor and inserting it into a totipotent stem cell, for example an egg". CNR is entirely different from human reproductive cloning. Research in the laboratory using very early stage embroys consisting of a few hundred cells and no nervous system is quite different from culturing embryos past the 14 day period, implementing them in the womb, and attempting to take the pregnancy to the full term..... for more about Therapuetic Cloning, click here

It's an Embryo, not a Fetus, in EU

With all the controversies and ethical issues amongst all, the embryo stem cell research in EU region should be going on. The great potentials being behind this drive but under strict regulations, they say.

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human embryonic stem cells have enormous potential for improving our knowledge and releiving suffering from many serious human diseases. However, the use of human embroys in research is highly controversial and raises complex ethical questions. It is vital that future legislation allows the full potential of this research to be realized whilst addressing these issues.

Patriot Games?

The economist, a British weekly journal, diagnoses, on its own, the recent stem cell research scandal Dr. Hwang has been involved in with some doses of lessons we might learn from the episode. I post extracts here and also the link to the full story(you might have to register to read the whole thing). In Britain, meanwhile, the government has been showing strong support to, while the general public doesn't seem to take issue with, the cloning research. The journal, however, quite often not rare, has been a "doomsayer" to most scientific breakthrorughs just arising on the horizon. Are they being generous this time?

Vocabularies to learn] twisted tale, once-feted but now-disgraced, salutary, critical scrutinity, inaccurate work, controversial, human cloning, scientists of becoming celebrities, fickle, hubris and vanity, nationalism and science, uneasy bedfellows, a scientific power, a fatally flawed piece of research, deluded scientific nationalism, Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet geneticist, Manhattan project

Quote of the day] “Nature does not bend to a scientist’s will, however much he or his audience may wish it might.”

The truth will out (extract from full story)

Compared with these dire examples of waste and destruction, Dr Hwang's mistake looks relatively modest. Those opposed to human cloning may raise a cheer or two that a great leap forward which they had feared seems not to have happened. But, as the Nazis discovered, denying reality just because you don't like it is equally foolish. Eventually, somebody probably will clone a human being. Just not, perhaps, in South Korea.

It's RAINing, I hope

It’s snowing like forever out there in Korea. I just miss when it RAINs, ‘cuz it makes me think a lot about….well, not always melancholy, tho. Let it RAIN...no more snow please....