• Since 1998 however, it has been possible to culture and differentiate human embryonic stem cells (in stem-cell lines). (wikipedia.org)
  • Somatic cell nuclear transfer is a cloning method that can be used to create a cloned embryo for the use of its embryonic stem cells in stem cell therapy. (wikipedia.org)
  • By 1998, human embryonic stem cells were first isolated by American biologist James Thomson, which made it possible to have new transplantation methods or various cell types for testing new treatments. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientists want to make cloned human embryos to get embryonic stem cells, which live inside early embryos and have the potential to cure a wide array of diseases. (irfi.org)
  • Above, a human stem cell colony, which is no more than 1 millimeter wide and comprises thousands of individual stem cells, grows on mouse embryonic fibroblast in a research laboratory in September 2001. (cnn.com)
  • In November 2010, William Caldwell, CEO of Advanced Cell Technology, said the FDA had granted approval for his company to start a clinical trial using cells grown from human embryonic stem cells. (cnn.com)
  • Above, dozens of packages containing frozen embryonic stem cells remain in liquid nitrogen in a laboratory at the University of Sao Paulo's human genome research center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in March 2008. (cnn.com)
  • In rodents, and even in some preliminary trials in humans, human embryonic stem cells have been shown to bridge gaps in spinal cord injuries , allowing restoration of motor functions. (thefutureofthings.com)
  • 2004). A year later, in a second Science article, he made the earth-shattering announcement that he had derived eleven embryonic stem cell lines using his cloning technique (Hwang et al. (asu.edu)
  • It unshackles Michigan's talented researchers and physicians, and permits them to finally join the race for cures by utilizing the most promising medical advancement of the 21st Century: embryonic stem cell research. (blogspot.com)
  • except for the fact that the federal government's National Institutes of Health has spent about $40 million a year on human embryonic stem cell research for the last number of years. (blogspot.com)
  • Obama will more than likely support allowing the NIH to fund human embryonic stem cell research on cell lines created after 2001 but I doubt they'll be spending hundreds of millions on that small sliver of the pluripotent stem cell research pie. (blogspot.com)
  • Except that Michigan researchers have already been competing for federal human embryonic stem cell funding. (blogspot.com)
  • Twentieth-century researcher Ernest John Christopher Polge studied the reproductive processes of livestock and determined a method to successfully freeze, thaw, and utilize viable sperm cells to produce offspring in animals. (asu.edu)
  • In 1966, his final year at Nottingham, he received a scholarship to conduct research for a summer under English biologist Ernest John Christopher Polge in the Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry, then a division of the Agricultural Research Council at the University of Cambridge. (mathisfunforum.com)
  • Can Human beings be Cloned? (irfi.org)
  • human beings have developed innovative technologies to treat and cure disease, to enhance human living conditions, and to protect or improve the environment. (jcpa.org)
  • Claims that you could clone individual treatments of human beings to treat common diseases like diabetes, suggests you need a huge supply of human eggs. (wikiquote.org)
  • Cancer has been in existence longer than human beings, and man has been facing the illness ever since he made his appearance on Earth. (jcancer.org)
  • Human cloning would create human beings asexually, meaning cloning for body parts would be to create slaves and treat them merely as harvestable crops. (humanize.today)
  • The New Atlantis is building a culture in which science and technology work for, not on, human beings. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • We are human beings, invited to reflect upon what that humanity means and requires in the field of bioethics. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • T he beginning of wisdom in bioethics may lie in the effort to think about what human beings are and why it matters morally. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • We can illustrate this first by noting how advancing genetic knowledge encourages us to think of human beings as no more than collections of parts. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. (adam.nz)
  • On April 11, 2003, Washington Post Staff Writer, Rick Weiss, reported 'New research suggests that it may be a lot harder to clone people than to clone other animals, an unexpected scientific twist that could influence the escalating congressional debate over human cloning and embryo research. (irfi.org)
  • But opponents of human embryo research were afraid that the new research not only identifies previously unrecognized hurdles to human cloning, but also points the way to overcoming those hurdles. (irfi.org)
  • increased public sensitivity and awareness together with the development of national regulations of governance of human cloning and embryo research in general. (lifeissues.net)
  • An in-depth analysis aiming at re-defining this terminology according to the new developments in human embryo research would be highly beneficial . (lifeissues.net)
  • 3. National regulations of governance of human cloning and embryo research in general adopted so far confirm the convergence of views of the refusal to adopt legislation or guidelines permitting reproductive cloning , while they still show variations on the legitimacy of human cloning carried out as part of research agendas. (lifeissues.net)
  • Rather, its task was to propose guidelines for preimplantation human embryo research that would be acceptable public policy based on reasoning that takes account of generally held public views regarding the beginning and development of human life. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • This document has been produced for the benefit of Members of Parliament and others involved in the proposed legislation to permit cloning research on human embryos. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Research using human embryos (whether created by in vitro fertilisation or by cell nuclear replacement) to increase understanding about human disease and disorders and their cell based treatments should be permitted, subject to the controls in Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Recommendation 2: In licensing any research using embryos created by cell nuclear replacement, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority should satisfy itself that there are no other means of meeting the objectives of the research. (cmq.org.uk)
  • However, the types of research proposed in the Donaldson report have yet to be done in animals, and so the use of human embryos for the proposed research cannot, even by secular reasoning, be justified. (cmq.org.uk)
  • The stem cells suits human needs, does not cause harm and can be obtained from both adult and fetal does not conflict with religious beliefs, it has tissues, umbilical cord and early embryos. (who.int)
  • Unicellular for those cells that are derived from human organisms are primed to replicate (clone) pre-embryos, which seem to have a high themselves by nature. (who.int)
  • Synthetic human embryos-what now? (frogheart.ca)
  • While these models can replicate aspects of the early-stage development of human embryos, they cannot and will not develop to the equivalent of postnatal stage humans. (frogheart.ca)
  • This has already been accomplished in humans, although the resulting embryos were destroyed after two weeks. (humanize.today)
  • Adding to the immorality, these clones would presumably be gestated in artificial wombs - which would require repeated experimentation on living human embryos and fetuses to perfect. (humanize.today)
  • It's almost like proponents of killing human embryos for research in Michigan have been misleading the public for so long (with the help of papers like the Free Press) they don't know how to be honest with them even after their proposal passed. (blogspot.com)
  • A blastocyst (cloned or not), because it lacks any trace of a nervous system, has no capacity for suffering or conscious experience in any form - the special properties that, in our view, spell the difference between biological tissue and a human life worthy of respect and rights. (wikiquote.org)
  • In the prestigious American journal Science, he claimed that he had succeeded in cloning a human blastocyst, which is an embryo in its early developmental stages (Hwang et al. (asu.edu)
  • In biology , cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria , insects or plants reproduce asexually . (wikiquote.org)
  • Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments ( molecular cloning ), cells (cell cloning), or organisms . (wikiquote.org)
  • He introduced cellular nuclear transfer technology to the Chinese biological community, developed methods to clone organisms from many marine species, and investigated the role of cytoplasm in early development. (asu.edu)
  • Organisms, biological agents, or biologically-derived agents used strategically for their positive or adverse effect on the physiology and/or reproductive health of other organisms. (lookformedical.com)
  • In 2020, California voters approved to continue funding California's Stem Cell Agency through the passage of Proposition 14: The California Stem Cell Research, Treatments, and Cures Initiative of 2020 . (ca.gov)
  • It seems that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and the authors have allowed themselves to over-interpretate their interesting results,' said Professor Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute, in Edinburgh, leader of the team, which cloned Dolly the sheep. (irfi.org)
  • Such is the enormity of the findings of the Roslin Institute, where not only was Dolly the sheep created, but her predecessors Tracy, Megan and Morag. (wikiquote.org)
  • Developments in biotechnology have raised new concerns about animal welfare, as farm animals now have their genomes modified (genetically engineered) or copied (cloned) to propagate certain traits useful to agribusiness, such as meat yield or feed conversion. (wikiquote.org)
  • While there is a great deal published on the potential medical applications of stem cell research to treat or cure diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, and heart disease, much less has been published on the future impact of stem cell research in reproductive medicine. (jcpa.org)
  • Experts in the field of regenerative medicine believe one of the first areas of success when using stem cell-derived therapies will be the treatment of macular degeneration, which causes progressive loss of sight, and other retinal diseases. (cnn.com)
  • The use of various types of stem cells for research purposes to make disease "models" in the lab for regenerative medicine and for "therapies" to cure sick patients for diseases is constantly in the news. (lifeissues.net)
  • There is great potential for patient benefit and faster success to find cures for many diseases. (parliament.uk)
  • Low maternal intake of n-3 PUFAs has been linked to neurodevelopmental diseases in Humans. (nature.com)
  • Low n-3 PUFA consumption globally has raised concerns about its potential detrimental effects on the neurodevelopment of human infants 9 and the incidence of neurodevelopmental diseases, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia 10 . (nature.com)
  • The petition recognizes that many "Canadians suffer from debilitating illnesses and diseases" and that the petitioners "support ethical stem cell research that has already shown encouraging potential to provide cures and therapies for these illnesses and diseases. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Improving our understanding of APR could result in more effective methods for diagnosis, treatment, control, and eradication of diseases. (bvsalud.org)
  • Scientists view stem cells as a possible gateway to curing many medical conditions, from Parkinson's disease to diabetes. (cnn.com)
  • Because of Proposal 2, Michigan's great institutions can now compete for those funds, which will accelerate the pursuit for cures and treatments to afflictions such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, juvenile diabetes, sickle cell anemia and spinal cord injuries. (blogspot.com)
  • A number of large biotech companies and scientists are looking toward stem cells as the basis for a therapeutic solution to cure such illnesses as blindness, diabetes and spinal cord injuries. (thefutureofthings.com)
  • The Donaldson committee 1 examined the issue of research into 'therapeutic' cloning and reported in June 2000. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Therapeutic cloning possesses enormous potential for revolutionizing medical and thera- peutic techniques. (who.int)
  • This is therapeutic cloning. (who.int)
  • This cell then has therapeutic cloning: the global the capacity to divide and grow into an exact replica of the original from whom the debate somatic cell was taken. (who.int)
  • Even the world's most famous sheep clone, Dolly, who died recently suffered from problems linked to this gene. (irfi.org)
  • is a British developmental biologist who was the first to use nuclear transfer of differentiated adult cells to generate a mammalian clone, a Finn Dorset sheep named Dolly, born in 1996. (mathisfunforum.com)
  • The somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) technique being discussed in the story is the same process that made Dolly the sheep. (humanize.today)
  • A closeup of a microscope slide taken in 2000 at the Reproductive Genetics Institute's Chicago laboratory shows transplanted stem cells taken from the umbilical cord blood of a baby named Adam Nash. (cnn.com)
  • And the 2000 version states 'In medical research on human subjects, considerations related to the well_being of the human subject should take precedence over the interests of science and society. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Given that we have an efficiency of 1% cloning for livestock species and if only one in a thousand cells are viable then around 100,000 cells would need to be transferred. (wikiquote.org)
  • A prominent biologist Lee Silver , once said that biology would be forever defined as BD and AD: before Dolly and after Dolly. (wikiquote.org)
  • It is quite possible that the advances in human biology in the remainder of the twentieth century will be remembered as the most significant scientific achievement of the animal species known as Homo sapiens . (lifeissues.net)
  • Cloning technology, however, is perceived as having the potential for reproductive cloning, which raises serious ethical and moral concerns. (who.int)
  • VICTORIA, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The B.C. Liberals tabled draft legislation to scrap the province's Human Rights Commission, leaving only a simple tribunal to hear complaints. (lifesitenews.com)
  • OTTAWA, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Dr. Dianne Irving, a leading international expert on new reproductive technologies, has reviewed the proposed Canadian legislation, Bill C-56 and has found it completely inadequate. (lifesitenews.com)
  • It is also our view that there are no sound reasons for treating the early-stage human embryo or cloned human embryo as anything special, or as having moral status greater than human somatic cells in tissue culture. (wikiquote.org)
  • As head of Japan's infamous Unit 731 (a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II), Dr. Shiro Ishii (head of medicine) carried out violent human experimentation of tens of thousands during the Second Sino-Japenses War and World War II.Ishii was responsible for testing vivisection techniques without any anesthesia on human prisoners. (pakalertpress.com)
  • The Helsinki declaration states: - 'Biomedical research involving human subjects must conform to generally accepted scientific principles and should be based on adequately performed laboratory and animal experimentation and on a thorough knowledge of the scientific literature. (cmq.org.uk)
  • If we add explicit attention to moral problems raised by human experimentation, the list could still today serve well as a brief itemization of the central concerns of bioethics. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • In addition to low success rates, cloned animals tend to have more compromised immune function and higher rates of infection, tumor growth, and other disorders. (wikiquote.org)
  • The newly discovered obstacle makes it more likely than ever that rogue scientists' recent claims to have created cloned babies were fraud. (irfi.org)
  • The first obstacle to cloning your dog is that $100,000 cost. (wikiquote.org)
  • In the middle of the year 2001 a group of scientists said cloning humans might be easier than cloning animals. (irfi.org)
  • Many scientists were dismayed and scientists involved in animal cloning warned of the many practical problems in cloning. (irfi.org)
  • The new work by scientists in Pittsburgh provides an explanation for why hundreds of attempts to clone monkeys have all failed despite successes in several other mammals. (irfi.org)
  • The scientists said they suspect that similar roadblocks exist for all primates -- the evolutionary grouping that includes monkeys and humans. (irfi.org)
  • In the light of this information, Congress could settle for less stringent restrictions on embryo cloning studies, which scientists favor. (irfi.org)
  • The con- is removed and replaced by a nucleus of cept of human cloning has long been in the another cell type, the stem cell will then imagination of many scientists, scholars and be reprogrammed to produce the product fiction writers [ 1 ]. (who.int)
  • Scientists would need to develop a way of successfully cloning humans and disabling their cognitive functions so they could only be used for organs, he noted. (humanize.today)
  • An Italian fertility doctor, Dr. Severino Antinori announced his intention to clone humans, so that he can help infertile couples to have children. (irfi.org)
  • Known for his oft-disputed role in the Roman Catholic Church's approach to the Nazis and World War II, Pope Pius XII also contributed a number of important documents regarding conception, fertility, abortion, and reproductive control to the Vatican's collection of writings and doctrine on procreation. (asu.edu)
  • There is a significant number of the population who will feel morally unable to use treatments derived from such research, and it is incumbent on government to ensure that all members of society can benefit from advances in medical treatment. (cmq.org.uk)
  • She is a member of the advisory board for CIHR's Institute for Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (IMNA) and serves on international editorial boards in the field of law, ethics and neuroscience, including Neuroethics, the Springer Book Series Advances in Neuroethics, and the Palgrave-MacMillan Book Series Law, Neuroscience and Human Behavior. (frogheart.ca)
  • One of the less convincing aspects of the last fortnight's flurry of announcements about advances in simulating early human development (see here) concerned their name. (frogheart.ca)
  • Vets bundaberg Whereas there isn't a treatment for diabetes mellitus, it may be helped by train, higher meals, and insulin. (steakgenomics.org)
  • The agency funds stem cell research at institutions and companies throughout California (as well as institutions and companies outside of the state that conduct a portion of their research in California) with the goal of accelerating treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. (ca.gov)
  • The vast majority of our funds go to advance research and the development of new treatments. (ca.gov)
  • They were optimistic based on the research carried out into human genetics. (irfi.org)
  • The researchers also say finding that the gene works in a different way in humans from animals such as rats and mice has raised questions about large areas of medical research. (irfi.org)
  • In order to better appreciate the role of stem cell research in reproductive medicine, there is a need to understand the critical biological principles of stem cell research and its potential applications to medicine. (jcpa.org)
  • Stem cell research is, in part, a quest to understand cellular differentiation, the process by which a human being develops from one fertilized cell into a multicellular organism composed of over 200 different cell types - for example muscle, nerve, blood cell, or kidney. (jcpa.org)
  • As part of that research, Raphael cofounded the Human Lactation Center, where she studied the breastfeeding habits of mothers around the world. (asu.edu)
  • This goes against the principle of the World Medical Association declaration of Helsinki, which deals with the research on human subjects. (cmq.org.uk)
  • And the term 'human subjects' 'includes research on identifiable human material. (cmq.org.uk)
  • This paper outlines the debates prompted through a reproduction mechanism involv- by progress in cloning research, with special ing male and female germ cells. (who.int)
  • When the nucleus of a stem cell has been the technique of cloning. (who.int)
  • The basic techniques of of the implanted nucleus, when it fully cloning have been known for some time, and develops. (who.int)
  • Next, the nucleus of the person to be cloned is removed from a skin cell and placed where the egg's nucleus used to be. (humanize.today)
  • Similarly, when the fertilized egg divides from two cells into four cells, each of these four cells has the potential to individually form a human fetus. (jcpa.org)
  • Contrary to popular belief, stem cells are present in the human body throughout life and are found in many adult organs. (jcpa.org)
  • The ICM continues to differentiate into three germ layers-ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, each of which follows a specific developmental destiny that takes them along an ever-specifying path at which end the daughter cells will make up the different organs of the human body. (thefutureofthings.com)
  • But what is not getting such wide reporting is the use of pluripotent stem cells (as well as many other types of cells and genetic engineering techniques) for reproductive purposes . (lifeissues.net)
  • However, it appears that the ability of the In its simplest form, cloning is defined stem cells to transform is limited, except as the exact replication of cells. (who.int)
  • Has the 21st century really produced so few medical advancement that cells which have yet to treat or cure anyone and haven't been approved for a single clinical trials are the "most promising medical advancement? (blogspot.com)
  • Medicine isn't just about wellness and curing illness anymore. (humanize.today)
  • VICTORIA, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) - A coalition of Canadian organizations and individuals has launched an emergency petition campaign to address the serious flaws in Bill C-56, The Assisted Human Reproduction Act. (lifesitenews.com)
  • More than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce viable offspring. (wikiquote.org)
  • Considered contrary to the moral law, since (it is in) opposition to the dignity both of human procreation and of the conjugal union. (wikiquote.org)
  • What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions. (adam.nz)
  • For example many clones die early or they are born with genetic deformities, and develop terminal illnesses such as cancer. (irfi.org)
  • But in order to become a part of medical history, parahuman reproduction and human genetic engineering must circumvent the recalcitrance of an antiquated culture. (lifeissues.net)
  • Positive Eugenics the preferential breeding of so-called superior individuals in order to improve the genetic stock of the human race. (ewtn.com)
  • The ultimate goal of our programs is to fast-track stem cell treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. (ca.gov)
  • From several different angles, medical advance has tempted us to lose sight of any sense in which the embodied human being is an integral, organic whole. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • This article is not intended to provide a medical diagnosis, recommendation, treatment, or endorsement. (worldhealth.net)
  • Similar to COVID‑19 and pregnancy tests, the results are displayed in a window with a dot appearing if the antibody is present, indicating infection. (worldhealth.net)
  • The authors, Liao, Sandberg and Roache (LSR) write, "It involves the biomedical modification of humans to make them better at mitigating climate change. (blogspot.com)
  • They hypothesized that each lump (colony) was a clone arising from a single marrow cell (stem cell). (wikipedia.org)
  • It is noted that the Donaldson report consistently uses the term 'cell nuclear replacement' rather than the word which everybody knows - cloning. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Reproductive cloning versus germ cell (egg, ovum). (who.int)
  • So why are editors giving that name to stem cell-based models of human development? (frogheart.ca)
  • The process has been rife with delay, people caught within human rights complaints usually feel like they're lost in some kind of Kafkaesque nightmare. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Dr. Irving, whose Ph.D. included a doctoral concentration in secular bioethics at the world's foremost bioethics institute, noted that the bill was poorly prepared using faulty science and lacking basic definitions necessary to have the law actually ban cloning as it claims it does. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The science of eugenics is merely the use of applied genetics to solve the problem of improving the health of the entire human race by improving the health of individuals. (ewtn.com)
  • You will find Reproductive Health, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STls) and Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) past question PDF which can be downloaded for FREE on this page. (carlesto.com)
  • Reproductive Health, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STls) and Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) is useful when preparing for GES107 course exams. (carlesto.com)
  • According to them this difference arose about 70 million years ago to help control the size of babies in the wombs of very early human ancestors. (irfi.org)
  • Maybe the merit of such proposals is that it provokes us to find out what it means to be human and what human dignity means. (blogspot.com)
  • Further, the ISSCR Guidelines prohibit the transfer of any embryo model to the uterus of a human or an animal. (frogheart.ca)
  • Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov, head of Insilico Medicine and the subject of the Daily Mail article, says: "Cloning, in my opinion, is the only way to make a dramatic leap in life extension and turn longevity into an engineering problem. (humanize.today)
  • The machines might be permitted to make all of their own decisions without human oversight, or else human control over the machines might be retained. (adam.nz)
  • But in many animals other than humans, one of these genes is turned off. (irfi.org)
  • Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire studied anatomy and congenital abnormalities in humans and other animals in nineteenth century France. (asu.edu)
  • A recent UNESCO draft document, although rather vague and deficient in itself, probably does the best job of at least initially identifying and describing some of these new reproductive technologies in relatively simple form, with a few generalized helpful sketches online. (lifeissues.net)
  • But one researcher in the anti-ageing field believe we could get there - or at least extend human lives beyond the current biological boundaries - without any miracle pill or injection. (humanize.today)
  • Dr John Parrington, a cloning expert at University College London, pointed out that more than one gene behaved in a way that might cause problems in a growing cloned human embryo. (irfi.org)
  • Amazingly, the first human cancer gene was cloned only thirty years ago. (jcancer.org)
  • Without doubt, the first human transforming gene, and more broadly, oncogenes and anti-oncogenes, had been previously theorized by Theodor Boveri. (jcancer.org)
  • The sentiment of Saadi's poem can be seen to conform to the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 buy cheat tom clancy's rainbow six siege 31 of which the first article reads as follows. (waldlog.com)
  • But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. (adam.nz)
  • But I am not optimistic in this regard as the argument takes advantage of a slippery slope which has been established through all sorts of human enhancement procedures which people have voluntarily adopted. (blogspot.com)
  • The findings are published in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, but have been criticized in Britain. (irfi.org)
  • This report is bad news for the unethical charlatans who have been preying on people by claiming they are able to clone people's loved ones,' said Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who led the new study in April 11, 2003 issue of the journal Science. (irfi.org)
  • Precision medicine diagnostic assays, aimed at improving the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of epigenetic abnormalities that cover a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses including dementias. (nih.gov)
  • Further, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that a large number of pregnancy-related deaths could be contributed to provider factors, including misdiagnosis and ineffective treatments, as well as system of care factors such as lack of coordination between providers. (prindleinstitute.org)
  • In the hotel bar, Ray gave me a partial preprint of his then-forthcoming book The Age of Spiritual Machines, which outlined a utopia he foresaw - one in which humans gained near immortality by becoming one with robotic technology. (adam.nz)
  • You can clone a dog that has been dead for fewer than five days, too, as long as you wrap its body in wet towels and place it in a refrigerator, which keeps it from drying out before getting to the vet. (wikiquote.org)
  • Lennart Nilsson is a world-renowned photojournalist recognized for his exploratory images of the inside of the human body. (asu.edu)
  • Clinical work dedicated to minimal invasive therapy for treatment of liver, lung and kidney tumors. (sercislat.es)
  • One scheme by which they think they might accomplish this goal is to create clones of themselves and then scavenge those clones' bodies for parts to be transplanted. (humanize.today)