this is just wrong...
as reported by thisislondon.com
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/12889336?source=PA
Doctor has cloned cells from dead baby
By Mark Prigg, Evening Standard Science Correspondent
31 August 2004
Controversial fertility specialist Panos Zavos today revealed plans to clone a dead baby.
The American doctor, who has been attacked for publicity seeking by British experts in the field, claims already to have carried out three experiments on tissues culled from dead human beings.
One involved a child of a one-and-a-half who had died during surgery.
For an undisclosed fee from the parents, Dr Zavos and his Kentucky team inserted genetic material from the child's skin cells into a cow egg, where they continued to grow. The resulting embryos were then terminated.
Tissues from a 33-year-old man, who died in unknown circumstances, and an 11 year old girl named Katie, who died in a traffic accident, were also used in the experiments.
Cells from the unnamed man produced viable embryos that could have been implanted into a surrogate mother, had they been created using a human egg, Dr Zavos said in London today.
"This was not about created a pregnancy, we are using cow eggs to refine our techniques. This is pure experimentation."
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I think this is misplaced. You are going to have another human who looks like the first one, the one the cells were cloned from. I believe that the appearance may not be all that close due to environmental influences in the developmental process and the person will not be a carbon copy of the other with the same thoughts, ideas and feelings, at best I think it might be like creating a twin, someone who looks very similar but has their own mannerisms, thoughts and unique tributes. This is not the way to "bring-back" a lost love one.
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absolutely right, glass. BUT!
what if it did create an almost perfect copy of looks? What if the personality's were strikingly similar (very possible barring possiblities of extreme mental trauma) I think it would be neat. Only thing that might be bad is when the kid grows up and realizes he is a clone of someone else. That would be some trauma. I can see it now...
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what if it did create an almost perfect copy of looks? What if the personality's were strikingly similar (very possible barring possiblities of extreme mental trauma) I think it would be neat. Only thing that might be bad is when the kid grows up and realizes he is a clone of someone else. That would be some trauma. I can see it now...
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Hmm, they will learn a lot true. I personally think that once they get how to record the human brain, they will be able to record from it, and copy it over to another one. Talk about mind control.
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Frap,
You remind me of a sci fi short story I read years and years ago. A mother and a child were talking about the childs upcoming birthday and eventually the mother let the child know that when that day came the mother would move her brain into the childs body, as she (and the rest of civilization) had done for several thousands of years. Kind of neat story, could actually happen in a hundred years. Clone yourself and move your brain over once your body has matured, nobody would want to move thier brain in before puberty would they??? I know once through that was enough for me!
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You remind me of a sci fi short story I read years and years ago. A mother and a child were talking about the childs upcoming birthday and eventually the mother let the child know that when that day came the mother would move her brain into the childs body, as she (and the rest of civilization) had done for several thousands of years. Kind of neat story, could actually happen in a hundred years. Clone yourself and move your brain over once your body has matured, nobody would want to move thier brain in before puberty would they??? I know once through that was enough for me!
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Re: cells cloned from dead baby
Originally posted by TheManiacal1
this is just wrong...
as reported by thisislondon.com
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/12889336?source=PA
...
For an undisclosed fee from the parents, Dr Zavos and his Kentucky team inserted genetic material from the child's skin cells into a cow egg, where they continued to grow. The resulting embryos were then terminated....
They will be called "eggheads"
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