Scientists crack genetic secrets of human egg

[bones_IV]

What’s this?

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[Rosalinda]

Bones_IV, Thanks for the link. Dr. Diane Irving, a molecular biologist/philosopher had the following information at the Life Issues website. She points out that Dr. Cibelli was involved in the South Korean fraud scandal in 2004-05 which falsely claimed to have created cloned embryos. A co-writer with Hwang.

Furthermore, it is also interesting to note Diane Irving points out one of his cloning colleagues, Robert Lanza, who received a lot of publicity when ACT issued a misleading press release last month claiming the successful extraction of ES cells without harming embryos.

: **Jose Cibelli, a stem cell researcher at the Michigan State University was a key scientific advisor on the stem cell institute’s Scientific and Medical Accountability Working Group. Those are the advisors who are supposed to help draw up rules to ensure that stem cell research funded by Prop 71 is conducted ethically. **In 2004 Cibelli was listed as co-author of a now debunked fraudulent scientific paper with Korea’s celebrity stem cell researcher, Hwang Woo-Suk. It’s not clear if Cibelli knew what Hwang did or was duped. **His university is investigating his role in the scandal. **

lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_116cibelli.html

Guilt by association? Lack of credibility?

Of the many ethical issues one could ennumerate, the exploitation of infertile couples by unscrupulous physicians to obtain human ova is one of them. I.V.F. is a billion dollar a year industry. How arrogant of scientists to patent human genes created by God for financial gain. Ultimately, it is all about the money.

 

[bones_IV]

Bones_IV, Thanks for the link. Dr. Diane Irving, a molecular biologist/philosopher had the following information at the Life Issues website. She points out that Dr. Cibelli was involved in the South Korean fraud scandal in 2004-05 which falsely claimed to have created cloned embryos. A co-writer with Hwang.

Furthermore, it is also interesting to note Diane Irving points out one of his cloning colleagues, Robert Lanza, who received a lot of publicity when ACT issued a misleading press release last month claiming the successful extraction of ES cells without harming embryos.

lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_116cibelli.html

Guilt by association? Lack of credibility?

Of the many ethical issues one could ennumerate, the exploitation of infertile couples by unscrupulous physicians to obtain human ova is one of them. I.V.F. is a billion dollar a year industry. How arrogant of scientists to patent human genes created by God for financial gain. Ultimately, it is all about the money.

Thanks.

 

[Rosalinda]

Again this vague nomenclature “unfertilized egg”. What does it mean in real terms?The President’s Council on Bioethics suggests.

What shall we call the product of SCNT? The technical description of the cloning method (that is, SCNT) omits all reference not only to cloning but also to the immediate product of the activity. This obscurity enables some to argue that the immediate product of SCNT is not an “embryo” but rather “an egg” or “an unfertilized egg” or “an activated cell,” and that the subsequent stages of development should not be called embryos but “clumps of cells” or “activated cells.”

bioethics.gov/reports/cloningreport/terminology.html#paragraph2

My question remains. What is Dr. Cibelli really talking about when he states:[sign]“Now we can clone these genes and** put them into cells** and see if they may have a role in the creation of stem cells – without fertilization or destruction of human embryos.”[/sign] Is he proposing to put these cloned genes into enucleated human ova? Is his goal to create new embryonic stem cell lines from a cloned embryo asexually produced? Would this be an example of parthenogenesis? His language seems to be filled with circumlocution and intentionally vague.
newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2840/content.htm

What’s up doc?