Cloning....Why clone anyway?

[AKA_Monet]

I'm so lost in this discussion Cheerful do you need to write a paper or something in Ethics?

Human genes are being cloned everyday AND on a computer chip... Now, that technology, wow. If I had money back in 1994 when Affymetrix started!!!

We can grow organoids in petri plates. We do it with stem cells all the time. Well, depending on how your look at it, the US cannot use Human Embryonic Stems so we scientists are WAAAY behind on that research curve. While Singapore and North Korean gives us bogus data on that subject...

The issue with providing correctional "parts" to damaged tissues is the honing to the area. It's easiest with skin. It's harder with nerves. And add a chronic illness into the mix, like cancer or heart failure, good luck...

And NONE of these studies are being done in the US anymore! So, don't get cancer unless your Senator Kennedy, or lose a limb, or have heart failure because, welp, you are NOT going to be saved with our current healthcare system.

I'd say the US is now 5 years behind other 1st world countries research...

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

I'm so lost in this discussion Cheerful do you need to write a paper or something in Ethics?

Human genes are being cloned everyday AND on a computer chip... Now, that technology, wow. If I had money back in 1994 when Affymetrix started!!!

We can grow organoids in petri plates. We do it with stem cells all the time. Well, depending on how your look at it, the US cannot use Human Embryonic Stems so we scientists are WAAAY behind on that research curve. While Singapore and North Korean gives us bogus data on that subject...

The issue with providing correctional "parts" to damaged tissues is the honing to the area. It's easiest with skin. It's harder with nerves. And add a chronic illness into the mix, like cancer or heart failure, good luck...

And NONE of these studies are being done in the US anymore! So, don't get cancer unless your Senator Kennedy, or lose a limb, or have heart failure because, welp, you are NOT going to be saved with our current healthcare system.

I'd say the US is now 5 years behind other 1st world countries research...

I think what's interesting is the recent ability to "reprogram" skin cells into a state that is similar to stem cells. That's going to be the future of the cloning debate and it will be interesting to see what theraputic advantages this technique can yield.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=16470482

http://www.wired.com/medtech/stemcel...7/11/skin_cell

Kitso
KS 361

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

I'm so lost in this discussion Cheerful do you need to write a paper or something in Ethics?

Human genes are being cloned everyday AND on a computer chip... Now, that technology, wow. If I had money back in 1994 when Affymetrix started!!!

We can grow organoids in petri plates. We do it with stem cells all the time. Well, depending on how your look at it, the US cannot use Human Embryonic Stems so we scientists are WAAAY behind on that research curve. While Singapore and North Korean gives us bogus data on that subject...

The issue with providing correctional "parts" to damaged tissues is the honing to the area. It's easiest with skin. It's harder with nerves. And add a chronic illness into the mix, like cancer or heart failure, good luck...

And NONE of these studies are being done in the US anymore! So, don't get cancer unless your Senator Kennedy, or lose a limb, or have heart failure because, welp, you are NOT going to be saved with our current healthcare system.

I'd say the US is now 5 years behind other 1st world countries research...

Nope. I don't have to write another paper until the fall. My 1st year is done...

Yeah, this is true about the human genes, but these kinds of studies are usually done with genes affected by diseases with a known faulty protein or something. I was talking about more on the lines of being able to generate an identical genetic copy of a whole organism. I don't think we really are able to do it with people yet. I'm thinking with us it would be much harder, because humans have about 25,000 different genes, probably each made up of between a few hundred to a few thousand base pairs of DNA code I'm sure.