The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which regulates such research, approved the license for Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly at Scotland's Roslin Institute in 1996.

He applied in September to Britain's fertility authority for a human cloning license to study how nerve cells go awry to cause motor neuron disease.

In a move that's sure to raise hackles with the anti-stem-cell crowd, the scientists will be using cloned embryos and studying the stem cells derived from the embryos in order to better understand and perhaps someday cure a currently incurable muscle-wasting motor neuron disease.

Wilmut and motor neuron expert Christopher Shaw of the Institute of Psychiatry in London plan to clone cells from patients with the incurable muscle-wasting disease, derive blank-slate stem cells from the cloned embryo, make them develop into nerve cells and compare their development with nerve cells derived from healthy embryos.

The mechanism behind motor neuron disease is poorly understood because the nerves are inaccessible in the brain and central nervous system and cannot be removed from patients.

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN

June 2003

FEB 08, 2005 10:17 AM

Yee! About bloody time.

Lemonkid

Canada

May 2003

FEB 08, 2005 10:24 AM

And so it begins.

twigtech

Atlanta, GA

September 2004

FEB 08, 2005 10:36 AM

Bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development. We check the normal growth and, paradoxically enough, the egg responds by budding.

duh.

Akrasia

Ireland

August 2004

FEB 08, 2005 10:38 AM

The 'Pro Life' people must be all conflicted

Michael_DeSade

Seattle, WA

OLD SKOOL

FEB 08, 2005 10:42 AM

So, if you cloned a President who had already served two terms, would the clone be prevented from running for the same office, or could you have FDR v1.2 go up against JFK v1.2 in the Democratic primaries?

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

FEB 08, 2005 10:43 AM

cloning is ridiculous!

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

FEB 08, 2005 10:44 AM

cloning is ridiculous!

SomeOneUK

United Kingdom

June 2004

FEB 08, 2005 10:57 AM

Well its not cloning in the same sense as Dolly, as there's no fully grown individual. In fact it's the same as normal stem cell research, except the stem cells are now being derived specifically from an embryo with the same genes as a living individual.

This still leaves a fully cloned human a long way away, unless you believe those sect people.

Akrasia

Ireland

August 2004

FEB 08, 2005 11:04 AM

there's no way cloning can be as fun a way to reproduce as normal sex... unless you're a nerdy scientist who can't get normal sex and really likes test tubes

InfernoMDM

Hilton Head Island, SC

July 2003

FEB 08, 2005 11:47 AM

Not to mention all clones right now degrade from the procedure. Shorter life span etc.

CaspertheCorpse

Canada

November 2002

FEB 08, 2005 12:32 PM

twigtech said onFebruary 08 2005, 10:36
Bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development. We check the normal growth and, paradoxically enough, the egg responds by budding.

i'm glad someone dropped a huxley reference.

MisterGraves

Portland, OR

November 2003

FEB 08, 2005 12:38 PM

Good. I hope more scientists move to the UK, then.
Bush is only hurting America by not allowing it. But then, what's new?

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

FEB 08, 2005 12:39 PM

Akrasia said:
there's no way cloning can be as fun a way to reproduce as normal sex... unless you're a nerdy scientist who can't get normal sex and really likes test tubes

No way, nerdy scientists get all the chicks.

dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

FEB 08, 2005 12:41 PM

Thistle said:

Akrasia said:
there's no way cloning can be as fun a way to reproduce as normal sex... unless you're a nerdy scientist who can't get normal sex and really likes test tubes

No way, nerdy scientists get all the chicks.

*puts lab coat on*

GreekGeek

El Monte, CA

February 2004

FEB 08, 2005 01:13 PM

So.... you're telling me cloning hasn't happened yet?!

Neyrissa

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

FEB 08, 2005 01:20 PM

Yay! Hooray for progress!

Admiral_Pants

Austin, TX

May 2004

FEB 08, 2005 01:43 PM

Thistle said:

Akrasia said:
there's no way cloning can be as fun a way to reproduce as normal sex... unless you're a nerdy scientist who can't get normal sex and really likes test tubes

No way, nerdy scientists get all the chicks.

Fuck, I thought it was mad scientists.
*crosses "show them... show them all" off to-do list*

One_Pure_Thought

East Greenwich, RI

October 2003

FEB 08, 2005 01:57 PM

I totally hope i will one day be able to fight my own clone...mirror match styleeee.

Wren

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

FEB 08, 2005 01:57 PM

HA! In your FACE! I'm actually surprised it happened this soon.

theseeman

Asheville, NC

December 2002

FEB 08, 2005 02:04 PM

Clones, Mutants, Robots, Zombies. I'm serious our generation will fight for our live in a post apocolyptic landscape. or south jersey.

Shal

Los Angeles, CA

October 2002

FEB 08, 2005 02:08 PM

Wren said:
HA! In your FACE! I'm actually surprised it happened this soon.

Actually, this is the second human cloning license granted in the UK.

acetracer

Hollywood, FL

January 2004

FEB 08, 2005 02:51 PM

Yes, but will they have a New Zealand accent?

Also Shalome, I edited it to fix a typo.

waldo

I'm lost

June 2004

FEB 08, 2005 03:31 PM

GreekGeek said:
So.... you're telling me cloning hasn't happened yet?!

They're not cloned, they're stamped out.

rodan

Baltimore, MD

February 2005

FEB 08, 2005 05:27 PM

waldo said:

GreekGeek said:
So.... you're telling me cloning hasn't happened yet?!

<removed images - can't take it any more>

They're not cloned, they're stamped out.

would if only THAT were true

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