Cloning Offers Stem-Cell Hope

Cloning Offers Stem-Cell Hope

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Researchers said Wednesday they used a cloning technique to create human embryos that were close genetic copies of the people from which they were derived—a potentially significant breakthrough in the quest to develop patient-specific stem cells to treat serious diseases.

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making strides in the human genome project every day..the fact that this is even an option on the menu is disturbing to me. Even if we could clone human embryos its only a matter of time before the technology gets into the wrong hands. If anything, understanding DNA will help us ditch some of our primitive views like racism.. the research tells us that there are 12 skin alleles (base skin colors) and the evolutionary expression of a particular allele is based on latitude.. which is the only determinate of skin color. latitude....

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