Do you think that therapeutic cloning research should be continued? read more about this at the bottom.?
March 102010
Embryonic stem cell research, or, potentially, in regenerative medicine where it is sometimes referred to as "therapeutic cloning." One vision for successful stem cell therapies is to create custom stem cell lines for patients. Each custom stem cell line would consist of a collection of identical stem cells each carrying the patient’s own DNA, thus reducing or eliminating any problems with rejection when the stem cells were transplanted for treatment. For example, to treat a man with Parkinson’s disease, a cell nucleus from one of his cells would be transplanted by SCNT into an egg cell from an egg donor, creating a unique lineage of stem cells almost identical to the patient’s own cells.
Potentially millions of patients could benefit from stem cell therapy, and each patient would require a large number of donated eggs in order to successfully create a single custom therapeutic stem cell line. Such large numbers of donated eggs would exceed the number of eggs currently left over and available from couples trying to have children through assisted reproductive technology. Therefore, healthy young women would need to be induced to sell eggs to be used in the creation of custom stem cell lines that could then be purchased by the medical industry and sold to patients. It is so far unclear where all these eggs would come from. The sale of human eggs is normally referred to as a "donation," but women who donate their eggs are often paid thousands of dollars.
Embryonic stem cell research also brings up a moral issue and could potentially lead to human cloning.
What is your opinion on this issue and why?
this is a poll
Therapeutic cloning should definitely move forward. I think you are wrong that healthy young women will be encouraged to sell eggs. Any way – I don’t care if they sell eggs.
Why couldn’t eggs be harvested from removed ovaries? Women have hysterectomies every day. I think you are seeing problems that don’t exist.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I just read a book by Michael Crichton titled "Next", it addressed this issue and brings up a great deal worthy of thought… I have not yet decided what I think is right, but it is I believe, a very slippery slope.
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March 10th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Saves lives without taking any. It should continue.
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March 10th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
I think cloning is pretty cool, its the way forward.
i dont see what the fuss is about it.
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March 10th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Therapeutic cloning should definitely move forward. I think you are wrong that healthy young women will be encouraged to sell eggs. Any way – I don’t care if they sell eggs.
Why couldn’t eggs be harvested from removed ovaries? Women have hysterectomies every day. I think you are seeing problems that don’t exist.
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