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Ethical storm as scientist becomes first man to clone himself

12 points by garbowza 19y ago

sarosh 19y ago
There's no indication from my reading of the article that any of the embryos produced were ultimately viable, so I'm not sure the title is 'accurate' per se. So far, this seems more like an effort by Mssr. Wood to get publicity for his company, Stemagen, of which he is CEO. Unless of course we have a very loose (strict?) definition of "clone"... The actual paper [PDF] is at: http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/2007-0252v1.pdf http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/2007-0252v1.p... Development of Human cloned Blastocyst Following Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) with Adult Fibroblasts by Andrew J. French, Cathrine A. Adams, Linda S. Anderson, John R. Kitchen, Marcus R. Hughes and Samuel H. Wood. DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0252 My biology kung fu is very weak. Any biohackers care to offer more expert opinion as to whether this is a substantial/notable event?
almost 19y ago
Please don't post articles from the Daily Mail, they're basically a tabloid and if you can't find the article else where then it's probably just bullshit.
- sarosh 19y ago
  Alternate links: Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011700324.html?hpid=moreheadlines http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01... US scientist clones himself from skin cells http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/18/genetics.medicalresearch http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/18/genetics.medic... Cloning Said to Yield Human Embryos http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18embryos.html?ref=us http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18embryos.html?ref=us
a-priori 19y ago
So he didn't do this to produce a viable embryo, but rather to harvest stem cells... and this is cloning, how? In fact, according to my biology/genetics major girlfriend, this procedure isn't even necessary anymore. There's a process now for turning his epidermal cells directly into stem cells.

12 points by garbowza 19y ago

There's no indication from my reading of the article that any of the embryos produced were ultimately viable, so I'm not sure the title is 'accurate' per se. So far, this seems more like an effort by Mssr. Wood to get publicity for his company, Stemagen, of which he is CEO. Unless of course we have a very loose (strict?) definition of "clone"... The actual paper [PDF] is at: http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/2007-0252v1.pdf http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/2007-0252v1.p... Development of Human cloned Blastocyst Following Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) with Adult Fibroblasts by Andrew J. French, Cathrine A. Adams, Linda S. Anderson, John R. Kitchen, Marcus R. Hughes and Samuel H. Wood. DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0252 My biology kung fu is very weak. Any biohackers care to offer more expert opinion as to whether this is a substantial/notable event?

almost 19y ago

Please don't post articles from the Daily Mail, they're basically a tabloid and if you can't find the article else where then it's probably just bullshit.

sarosh 19y ago
Alternate links: Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011700324.html?hpid=moreheadlines http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01... US scientist clones himself from skin cells http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/18/genetics.medicalresearch http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/18/genetics.medic... Cloning Said to Yield Human Embryos http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18embryos.html?ref=us http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18embryos.html?ref=us

a-priori 19y ago

So he didn't do this to produce a viable embryo, but rather to harvest stem cells... and this is cloning, how? In fact, according to my biology/genetics major girlfriend, this procedure isn't even necessary anymore. There's a process now for turning his epidermal cells directly into stem cells.