Stem Cells: Same-sex couples to have their own genetic children in future.

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ghaleon1980 said:

Scoobes said:

ghaleon1980 said:

This story, albeit interesting, doesn't really mean anything for the future of human children.  There are way too many differences between mice and humans to extrapolate success from one species to another.  Want an example???

C-L-O-N-I-N-G.

 

Look it up.  It has been done in several animal species but is yet to be accomplished in humans.

 

Peace out. 

The main difference in doing it in animals and humans is the ethics and the scales of the study. How many mice did they attempt this in before they were successful?

Human ehtics means that any studies of this nature in humans are very rare and unlikely to work even if the science itself is still sound.

 

"Ethics" alone is not the reason why human cloning has not been successful.  This may be true in industrial, modernized countries such as the US but I can assure you that there are plenty of research teams in other countries that disregard the "ethics" involved and have still been unsuccessful.  

You're wrong. I work in a state of the art lab manipulating stem cells and have written proposals on manipulation of human stem cells not to mention the countless research papers I have read from leading scientist in the field due to my area of research.

The reason we don't clone humans is exactly what Scoobes said.

Kasz216 is also quite correct. The problem with cloning is that they use somatic nuclear transfer which creates defects in the cloned organism since histone acetylation and methylation of DNA is not completely reversed from the original nuclease. This causes many genetic diseases as the cloned organism grows older. It is the same reason ips cells are inferior to embryonic stem cells. This is a vast oversimplification but I hope you get the idea.