Scientist gets human cloning license
KVOA.com, AZ
The British government on Tuesday gave the creator of Dolly the Sheep a human cloning license for medical research. It is the second...continued (http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2920103&nav=HMO5W8Zq)

Horray! :)

This is terrific news for medical research. Hopefully it will start a trend in other countries.

(Also hopefully people who respond in this thread will pay attention to the distinction between therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning and won’t prattle on with non-sequiturs about cloned babies. :bugeye: )<P>

Larry King will be the first human clone. And it won't be just one but dozens and dozens of them. Someday we'll turn on TV and see toddler Larry Kings doing baby food commercials, child Larry Kings on kids shows, young Larry Kings on MTV, Larry Kings who appeal to the 30ish demographic, Larry Kings doing ads for arthritis drugs.

There will be genetically engineered King clones as well. Tall ones for basketball. Midget Larry Kings to climb into and work on jet engines . 400 pound Larry King Sumo wrestlers.

And the orginal will be at DisneyWorld in cryogenic suspension waiting to make a come back.

Muhlenberg . . . What?!

Anyway . . .

I suppose this is a good thing, the British scientist getting this licenses. It'd be kool to see where it leads in the field of medicine.

Hercules Rockefeller...it is not "therapeutic" for the cloned human embryo.

good luck to 'em, maybe they could bring back einstein. get that damn theory worked out once and for all....

Hercules Rockefeller...it is not "therapeutic" for the cloned human embryo.

Who cares, really?

You can't bring back people! You'd just end up with a clone that looks like them, but without all the memories.

Good thing he got the licence. Good for progress.

As for the embryos, I think that people who are already alive have priority.

about time, now all we have to do is make a super clone army and we will have a perfect world

Won't work. Liberals will start a Clone Race and start making anti-American marxist girly men. They'll fill the country up with copies of Leslie Feinberg (http://www.transgenderwarrior.org/), Michael Moore, Noan Chomsky, Brian Becker, Phil Donahue and Ward Churchill.

Btw...vslayer , why is the party dictating that every topic must relate to the war?

Creeps me out. Sounds like the 1930s Popular Front. 1998, war good! Fall 2002, war almost as good! Winter 2003, war bad!

At least one country believes in science. Bush's authorized line of stem cells is all contaminated.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524844.500

Huh? At least one country? Aren't you aware that the research which has limited ability to taxpayer money is just one part of embryonic cell research in America? Over thirty companies are doing it. They aren't affected by the Federal government limiting it to a few lines of cells. Nobody knows but it is possible they have cloned human cells. They certainly have created their own lines of human cells.

Who would you prefer do this type of reserach? The state with all its power and tempid regard for result (more funding is normal goal of government funded science)?

Or private companies which must produce results or perish?

And yes, everyone is aware of the tainted cell story.

The question is why the fact the reseach is bubbling along nicely without government funding doesn't get the attention it should.

As for the einstein thing, yeah, no memories, but the same mind, the same thought processes, the same inteligence is present. Put today's data in front of him for a few decades and he'd probably make something out of it. A bit of involuntary sacrifice on his part, makes it all kinda sick and twisted....

ugh...its not that simple. Gene expression has a lot to do with environment, which is itself a lot harder to replicate than dna.