Embryonic Stem Cells and Disease Part 2 of 6

[Unklebillybob]

A proper prospective. Take a man with his specific DNA. Now take a woman with her specific DNA. They choose to mate and produce an offspring. There are a couple of positive possibilities; 1st they can produce one offspring or 2nd, They can produce multiple offsprings. In all cases, the DNA of the offspring(s) will be unique-not the same of the parents or each other.

So, You many ask? If you try cloning specifically, to get body parts to repair old organs, you are killing a unique human

[hsmp363]

p.s. Douglas Melton is THE MAN. when bush cut off funding for stem cell research, he created about 16 stem cell lines (each cost about $100,000/year to maintain) free to anyone who wanted to use them. he also talked personally with president bush and mitt romney, though they paid him no attention. he was also nominated most influential person of the year, behind barack obama and robert mugabe. oh yeah, and he's my professor. =)

[TrenchantAtheist]

Much agreed, hsmp.

More immediately, cloning has direct applications to pharmaceutical interests as they are able to engineer sheep with human enzymes in their milk. In fact, most people don't know that the first clone, Dolly, was made for specifically that reason! The only reason researchers wanted to clone sheep was to make it more economically viable for the production of medicine (it costs huge amounts of investment to produce a single sheep with medicinal milk)

[hsmp363]

the purpose of cloning is not to make "another you." freakin hollywood pressures us to fantasize about these identical selves that allow people to take over the world.

people need to realize the potential of cloning, which allows for the process of stem cell research.

for those of you who don't understand the importance of stem cell research, think about creating a kidney for someone with PKD or a good pancreas for someone with diabetes. think of the potential, not your stupid fantasies.

[zenophas]

READ THIS YOU STUPID HUMANS! when you think of cloning, try always thinking of creating an artificial twin. Even though it may look almost identical it will have variations, this includes; Moderate genetic differences, giving the clone a rather alike but yet different appearance to it's original counterpart. Secondly, no creature in existence can possess the same mind, a conciseness cannot be inherited through sex or anything else. And lastly, reproductive clones can inherit gene sicknesses.

[gemininer]

So is cloning like creating an identical twin brother or sister? I mean, our clone will not be you. It would be a totally different being, only it would share identical physical appearance with you. So the clone could have a totally different personality and character from that of the donor? Is there a big similarity between cloning and stem cell study?

[Junije1]

LOL, rest your brain for a bit...

[gemininer]

lol, well maybe you should let your brain work a bit instead and answer my questions =)

[Oxygaunt]

Yeah, a single egg (identical) twin would essentially be your clone, considering your genetic material is the same. So if you cloned yourself, you'd only make a twin of yourself, only at a different age.

[angel1025Angel]

i wonder how you would feel if you foung out you were cloned?

[chattaboxwow]

wooow...who wants 2 make clones???

i dont...its freeeky..

[florinstoiaaa]

see the cellmedicine youtube channel..they talk about how the 4 proteins involved in cloning can be used to make clones from skin cells

[Entropy56]

We know that there is human cloning going on in China and Russia.

[neothomist1275]

There is evidence that Russia and China are creating human-baboon hybrids with wet-wired brains as soldiers (I'm completely serious).

[hlkolaya]

neothomist, do you have any resources or evidence that i could look at?

[dmequestrian27]

neothomist, do you have any links to sites where this is mentioned?

[chattaboxwow]

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[chattaboxwow]

U JOKIN...

[hlkolaya]

entropy, how do we know that? are there any studies published or research? or any actual cases?

[Entropy56]

No. I don't know anything. It was just a drive-by remark to stir things up. See? I got 6 comments. Three more than the originator of the video got. I brought his count up from 3 to 9.

[chattaboxwow]

oi..plz tell me bout it....i wanna know!!!

HOLLA BK SOON.

[cellmedicine]

This is very informative. We also have some videos about stem cells on our channel

[sixTeightstud]

indeed

[13031606]

this is awesome