Britain allows cloning of human embryos

Britain allows cloning of human embryos

Britain allows cloning of human embryos

Britain yesterday seemed like expanded scientific distance from the world, when he gave the body of the human fertilization and embryology first authorization to proceed with research on cloning human embryos, in order to obtain stem cells are stem cells. The resolution puts Britain at the forefront of the world in stem cells, which is one of the most important fields of medicine in the twenty first


century science. This comes at a time of raging US debate about this issue, many of America's scientists fear that threatens the continuation of the formal restraint regarding this research by low scientific capacity of the United States in the field of biology and research.

The stem cells give rise to heated debate in the circles of science, ethics, philosophy, politics and economics, and return unit debate, the bets on those cells. On the one hand, it can stem cells that show since the first days after fertilization of the egg sperm, to give all the contents of the human body organs and tissues. That means its ability to compensate for all the damage in the body matter. It is now the only hope in the treatment of intractable diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's dementia, diabetes, multiple sclerosis plaque in the brain, and others.

Stem cells form the basis for the economy of biology which is expected to be a hallmark of the twenty-first century. On the other hand, the extraction of those cells leads, obviously, to the death of the fetus, which is taken from him. Can you describe a fertilized egg in the life of a week or ten days, as the fetus? This is one of the questions in stem cell research. So it noted British scientists, such as Miodrag Stojkovic, to the satisfaction to the stunning prospects opened by the decision. The fact that Stojkovic heads the group "Stem Cell Group," which operates in the framework of the Institute of Genetics at Newcastle University, northern England, and made a request for initiation of stem cell research.

The House of Commons (parliament) that the British legal research in 2001 passed, but no one actually submit a request to initiate Astnsakah research. As well as the scientists stressed that they will not let it turn into a cloning of human beings, and they decided to destroy the embryos to be used in that research, before arriving in the fourteenth day of age, I'll be a cluster of cells no bigger than a pinhead.

Another hand in the debate about stem cells, focused on how to obtain. It is clear that to get those cells from embryos, approaching the techniques used in cloning. That is why those operations are called "therapeutic cloning" Cloning Therapuetic. If unleashed in front of its growth, up to full human cloning phase. The destinations in the world agree to the possibility of allowing therapeutic cloning, with a lot of objections, raises human cloning and Astelladhm of abnormal road storms of protests. And it encourages British move to proceed with therapeutic cloning research, in order to get the tissues and organs of those cells.

Because the 21st century is the century of biology par excellence, it opens an important debate, especially in the major industrialized countries, for stem cells. The EU was unable to overcome the many objections to such research. At the beginning of this year, the Japanese parliament passed a law that would lead to allow this kind of research. In late 2001 the South Korean parliament passed a law allowing therapeutic cloning research to obtain stem cells. In February last February, he managed a group of Korean scientists to obtain 15 embryos by cloning for them on those cells.