Potential cloning
Cloning of human embryos is something that researchers at Harvard hoped to accomplish. This work is aimed to cure human blood diseases such as leukemia, sickle-cell anemia, and other blood related diseases. This research, however, is very controversial work.
There are, so far, three main researchers on this project. Dr. George Daley, Douglas Melton, and Kevin Eggan. They each are investigating deep into different aspects of Stem cell research through cloning of human embryos. Daley would not said he specifically was doing or give any other information. On the other hand, Melton is working on Diabetes while Eggan is working on Lou Georgia disease.
The whole purpose for human embryo cloning is to produce a transplant material that would be genetically matched to a patient. This would make sure that the cells would not be rejected. This theory, to many people, is ethnically wrong.
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3 Comments:
Neat! I learned that this type of cloning is called "therapeutic cloning."
Hey, I learned that Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University in South Korea and his colleagues claimed to be the first to clone a human embryo and recover stem cells from it in February 2004.
That's crazy! People who want to clone humans are crazy! : ) Anyways my point has nothing to do with this.
I also learned that it is more accurately called "artificial twinning". It simulates the idea of how twins naturally develop. In about 1 out of every 75 human conceptions the fertilized egg splits and becomes twins. In cloning they do this same thing in a laboratory. Cool, huh?
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