Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Free Rabbit Hutch Blueprint Therapeutic human cloning

the other day I found the following article about the cloning of human cells for therapeutic purposes, which is making considerable progress in recent years and shown as solid proof of the effectiveness of cloning as a potentially useful:

therapeutic human cloning is a step closer after U.S. researchers reported that they were able to create embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos.

The scientists said at a conference on stem cell research, developed in the Australian city of Cairns this week that growth couldsuccessfully ar two batches of embryonic stem cells from cloned rhesus monkey embryos.

The announcement is a major breakthrough in the investigation.

"We've been looking for this evidence for a long time," he told Reuters Australian stem cell pioneer Alan Trounson, of Stem Cell Centre at Monash University in Melbourne.

"It is very important to this, knowing we can do this because gein which the ovarian cell nucleus is removed and replaced with the nucleus of a donor.

The cell eventually forms an early embryo, or blastocyst, with DNA almost identical to the donor organism.

Mitalipov said he used skin cells of Rhesus monkeys for 10 years and evidence presented at the conference of his success using DNA evidence. The specialist also showed slides of the embryonic cells changing cardiac cells and neurons.

The shift towards the use of polarized light in the laboratory, rather than ultraviolet light traditionally used to identify the cellular chromosomes, would have led the advance, the scientist said.

Mitalipov's success, not yet published in a journal, scientists closer to producing human embryonic stem cells from cloned adult cells, thereby reducing risk of possible rejection of donor cells used externally.

Scientists hope

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