Embryo Cloned From Human Stem Cells — Today Show Reports

California lab claims step toward developing valuable stem cells

NEW YORK - Scientists in California say they have produced embryos that are clones of two men, a potential step toward developing scientifically valuable stem cells.

The new report documents embryos made with ordinary skin cells. But it’s not the first time human cloned embryos have been made. In 2005, for example, scientists in Britain reported using embryonic stem cells to produce a cloned embryo. It matured enough to produce stem cells, but none were extracted.

Stem cells weren’t produced by the new embryos either, and because of that, experts reacted coolly to the research.

“I found it difficult to determine what was substantially new,” said Doug Melton of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He said the “next big advance will be to create a human embryonic stem cell line” from cloned embryos. “This has yet to be achieved.”

Dr. George Daley of the Harvard institute and Children’s Hospital Boston called the new report interesting but agreed that “the real splash” will be when somebody creates stem cell lines from cloned human embryos.

“It’s only a matter of time before some group succeeds,” Daley said.

Read entire article here at MSNBC.com (Watch the actual video report here as well)

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My thoughts on this are… is it a controversy? Science was destined to get to this point, we all had to expect this coming. I think the only danger this would create is if this discovery gets into the wrong hands. Something like the nuclear bomb being discovered, cloning of the wrong people would be disastrous and dangerous. Would we want TWO Hitler’s or TWO Osama’s?! It’s hard enough trying to find Osama now, try finding two of him!

Sure we could argue that we could control who and how these clones are made, but we all know that the world is spiraling out of control with false statements. People like to share discoveries and out in China and Russia there are discoveries being made that have yet to be shared with the U.S. It will get passed around, and it’s bound to get distorted into the wrong hands. If a ‘bad’ human were to be cloned, we can’t murder them because we made a bad mistake in duplicating the person. We can’t take back a human creation.

This is the danger in Playing God. It’s amazing that they’re able to do this, but it’s not just going to be used just for Human Organ’s for very long.

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