• In January 2008, Dr. Andrew French and Samuel Wood of the biotechnology company Stemagen announced that they successfully created the first five mature human embryos using SCNT. (wikipedia.org)
  • That makes it all the more interesting that none of them profess to oppose research cloning on the anti-abortion grounds that human embryos -- created and then destroyed for their stem cells in the process -- are morally equivalent to persons. (prospect.org)
  • As all genetic engineering involves the usage and wastage of human embryos it is considered wrong by Catholics' who believe life begins at conception and therefore life is being destroyed. (bartleby.com)
  • Embryonic stem cell research ( ESCR ) is highly controversial, primarily because extraction of such cells results in the destruction of days-old human embryos. (ecamrl.org)
  • While Rep. DeGette's Stem Cell Research Advancement Act (H.R. 4808) would authorize taxpayer dollars for research involving the killing of human embryos, it goes much further. (ecamrl.org)
  • for research purposes" and "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed. (ecamrl.org)
  • Thus, if the bills become law, only the implantation of cloned embryos would be barred from being federally funded, rather than actual cloning. (ecamrl.org)
  • Stem cells may be derived from adult tissues but the most potent are extracted from developing human embryos. (edu.au)
  • In this case, each embryo was created by taking a nucleus from a skin cell (donated by Wood and a colleague) and inserting it into a human egg from which the nucleus had been removed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conception" (fertilization) is the union of an oocyte and sperm cell (specifically, the fusion of the membranes of an oocyte and spermatozoon upon contact) giving rise to a new and distinct living human organism, the embryo. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • For example, in rare instances at an early point in embryonic development, some cells become disaggregated from the embryo and through a process of internal restitution and regulation, resolve themselves into a separate new living human organism-a monozygotic (identical) twin of the original embryo. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • Even the European Court of Human Rights, which has in recent years been reluctant to afford full protection to the unborn child, nonetheless stated in 2004: "It may be regarded as common ground between States that the embryo/fetus belongs to the human race. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • While there is broad agreement about the biological classification of the embryo as a living, individual member of the human species, some are attempting to revise scientific terminology for political reasons-to obfuscate or conceal the moral and ethical questions at hand. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • Unfortunately, certain scientists and scientific organizations have followed such a course in the past, by arguing, for example, that the term "embryo" should not be used to describe the individual human being who is used and destroyed in embryonic stem cell (and other forms of embryo) research. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • In a recent landmark judgment, the European Court of Justice rightly rejected such terminological manipulation, holding that "any human ovum after fertilization, any non-fertilized human ovum into which the cell nucleus from a mature human cell has been transplanted, and any non-fertilized human ovum whose division and further development have been stimulated by parthenogenesis constitute a 'human embryo'" [ECJ 18.10.2011, C-34/10, Brustle v Greenpeace]. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • Here's how: Under the disingenuous title "Prohibition against Funding for Human Cloning," the legislation inaccurately defines "human cloning" as the implantation of a cloned embryo, instead of as the creation of such an embryo. (ecamrl.org)
  • In this section, the term "human cloning" means the implantation of the product [the cloned embryo] of transferring the nuclear material of a human somatic cell into an egg cell from which the nuclear material has been removed or rendered inert [SCNT] into a uterus or the functional equivalent of a uterus. (ecamrl.org)
  • Assisted reproductive technology (ART) and embryo research have posed many challenges to the different timeframes of science, ethics and law. (edu.au)
  • Scientists are still working on safe ways to clone human beings. (vivaessays.com)
  • Imagine a world in which human beings can be replicated using cloning. (visit-now.net)
  • The fact that from conception each unborn child is by nature a human being is true of all human beings, however brought into being, at every stage of development. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • ESCR also has been plagued by tumors in lab animals, thereby making its safety for use in human beings highly questionable. (ecamrl.org)
  • Meanwhile, human trials with adult stem cells not only are safe for the donor and recipient but have produced treatments for more than 70 ailments in human beings. (ecamrl.org)
  • The report arose out of a recommendation for the Committee to review the report of the Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC) of the NHMRC entitled Scientific, Ethical and Regulatory Considerations Relevant to Cloning of Human Beings (hereafter the AHEC Report ). (edu.au)
  • Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg advocated cloning and genetic engineering in an article in The American Naturalist in 1966 and again, the following year, in The Washington Post. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, recent scientific advancements, genetic engineering, is becoming more of a reality rather than a fantasy. (bartleby.com)
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  • Perhaps the first step will be the production of a clone from a single fertilized egg, as in Brave New World. (wikipedia.org)
  • And they have sought to advance their cause by stoking a primal unease about cloning that springs from our literature ( Brave New World ), myth ( Faust ), and popular culture ( Attack of the Clones ). (prospect.org)
  • According to the report, people are living longer mainly because of improvements in nutrition and hygiene, as well medical advancements that have successfully countered communicable diseases. (worldhealth.net)
  • Two commonly discussed types of human cloning are therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therapeutic cloning would involve cloning cells from a human for use in medicine and transplants. (wikipedia.org)
  • Two common methods of therapeutic cloning that are being researched are somatic-cell nuclear transfer and (more recently) pluripotent stem cell induction. (wikipedia.org)
  • these are the "holy grail" that would be useful for therapeutic or reproductive cloning. (wikipedia.org)
  • The desire to avert a "posthuman future" also drives the so-called secular case against therapeutic cloning outlined by Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer (a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, along with Fukuyama), ethicist Leon Kass (the council's chairman), and other neoconservatives. (prospect.org)
  • The pro-therapeutic cloning side also saw some stunning conversions to its position -- Orrin Hatch, Strom Thurmond, Nancy Reagan, Gerald Ford -- and was bolstered by support from Nobel laureate scientists and celebrities such as Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeve (who represent an army of patients suffering from serious and often life-threatening degenerative diseases). (prospect.org)
  • In 2004 and 2005, Hwang Woo-suk, a professor at Seoul National University, published two separate articles in the journal Science claiming to have successfully harvested pluripotent, embryonic stem cells from a cloned human blastocyst using SCNT techniques. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2011, scientists at the New York Stem Cell Foundation announced that they had succeeded in generating embryonic stem cell lines, but their process involved leaving the oocyte's nucleus in place, resulting in triploid cells, which would not be useful for cloning. (wikipedia.org)
  • Four embryonic stem cell lines from human fetal somatic cells were derived from those blastocysts. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are also scientific techniques (including but not limited to somatic cell nuclear transfer, otherwise known as cloning) that bring into being a distinct new human individual at the embryonic stage of development. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • The first government-approved human trial using cells derived from embryonic stem cells has begun, it was announced Oct. 11. (ecamrl.org)
  • With the cloning of a sheep known as Dolly in 1996 by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the idea of human cloning became a hot debate topic. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this experiment, the researchers developed a protocol for using SCNT in human cells, which differs slightly from the one used in other organisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • The possibilities of human cloning have raised controversies. (wikipedia.org)
  • In an astounding show of solidarity, a diverse group of countries rallied together with the Holy See to successfully remove any mention of reproductive rights or population control from the final outcome document produced during the last round of UN negotiations at the Rio +20 conference this week. (catholiclane.com)
  • Another Nobel Laureate, James D. Watson, publicized the potential and the perils of cloning in his Atlantic Monthly essay, "Moving Toward the Clonal Man", in 1971. (wikipedia.org)
  • With over the near-daily advancements in biomedical technologies related to research specifically focused on elucidating treatments for aging-related disorders and modulating the metabolic dysfunctions associated with old age, in the imminent near-future, effective interventions will become widely available to modulate the aging process itself in humans. (worldhealth.net)
  • 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)
  • A published article said Lieberman believes abortion laws should be re-examined because medical advancements have lengthened the window of when a fetus is viable. (ontheissues.org)
  • The unique properties of human stem cells have aroused considerable optimism about their potential as new pathways for alleviating human suffering caused by disease and injury. (edu.au)
  • This issue was considered by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in its report entitled Human Cloning: Scientific, Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research (hereafter the Andrews Report , after the Chair of the Committee, Mr Kevin Andrews, MP) released in September 2001. (edu.au)
  • Stem cell technology in humans derives from earlier and complementary work in animal studies. (edu.au)
  • The first hybrid human clone was created in November 1998, by Advanced Cell Technology. (wikipedia.org)
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  • Reproductive cloning would involve making an entire cloned human, instead of just specific cells or tissues. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although the possibility of cloning humans had been the subject of speculation for much of the 20th century, scientists and policymakers began to take the prospect seriously in 1969. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many nations outlawed it, while a few scientists promised to make a clone within the next few years. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2005 laws were passed giving scientists approval to carry out experiments that could lead to the first genetically altered babies being born in Britain, showing how close we are to genetically modified humans. (bartleby.com)
  • Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. (wikipedia.org)
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  • Largely owing to the education efforts of the umbrella Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, legislators who might once have thought of The Boys from Brazil when they heard the word "cloning" now think of potential cures for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. (prospect.org)
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  • In addition, any process that results in the creation of a new living human organism should be understood as a form of "conception" for purposes of these articles. (sanjosearticles.com)
  • An international commission committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Americas recently published two reports that challenge laws protecting life from conception in both North and South America. (catholiclane.com)
  • The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering "sexual and reproductive health and rights" for children as young as ten. (catholiclane.com)
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  • Human reproductive cloning is the name of the process. (vivaessays.com)
  • There was a real effort to get this off the issue of where life begins," notes Daniel Perry, executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research, which supports research cloning. (prospect.org)
  • Human reproductive cloning should remain banned and all research in this area stopped forthwith. (vivaessays.com)
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  • For this reason, argues Fukuyama, the current cloning debate amounts to "an important strategic opportunity to establish the possibility of political control over biotechnology. (prospect.org)
  • As former Clinton administration bioethicist R. Alta Charo puts it, according to this strategy "the cloning debate is about everything but what it's about. (prospect.org)
  • and the general public debate about reproductive cloning. (edu.au)
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  • J. B. S. Haldane was the first to introduce the idea of human cloning, for which he used the terms "clone" and "cloning", which had been used in agriculture since the early 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • The idea seems to have been that, due to its resonances, cloning could serve as a Trojan horse for an array of speculative anxieties about the future. (prospect.org)
  • The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • If we get used to cloning in the near term, it will be much harder to oppose germ-line engineering for enhancement purposes in the future. (prospect.org)
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  • Indeed, the Senate may be closer to passing a rival bill that would only ban the use of cloning to produce a full-grown baby. (prospect.org)
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  • Under a deceptively written definition, human cloning would be permitted as long as a clone is not implanted. (ecamrl.org)
  • In response, a group of lawmakers introduced legislation that would authorize federal funding for human cloning. (ecamrl.org)
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  • In his recent book Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution , Francis Fukuyama writes, "Cloning is the opening wedge for a series of new technologies that will ultimately lead to designer babies. (prospect.org)
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