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Posted on Feb 20, 2004, 7 a.m.
By Bill Freeman
NEW YORK A rose is a rose is a rose, even if - like many commercial plants - it is essentially a clone. But is a normal human blastocyst, a microscopic bubble of proto-life that forms about five days after sperm meets egg, the same as a cloned blastocyst. That may seem an arcane technical question in the debate about human cloning, which was reignited last week with the announcement by South Korean scientists, led by Woo Suk Hwang and Shin Yong Moon, that they had cloned a human embryo and harvested embryonic stem cells from it.
NEW YORK A rose is a rose is a rose, even if - like many commercial plants - it is essentially a clone. But is a normal human blastocyst, a microscopic bubble of proto-life that forms about five days after sperm meets egg, the same as a cloned blastocyst? That may seem an arcane technical question in the debate about human cloning, which was reignited last week with the announcement by South Korean scientists, led by Woo Suk Hwang and Shin Yong Moon, that they had cloned a human embryo and harvested embryonic stem cells from it.
Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/130206.htm
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