- Hwang and his colleagues created the new stem-cell lines using a
technique similar to the one used to produce Dolly the sheep in 1996. One
key to their success was using freshly harvested eggs from young, fertile
women, rather than embryos left over from fertility clinics. The women
who volunteered for the study signed informed-consent agreements, and
were not paid.
- To perform cloning, scientists remove the nucleus from an egg and replace it with a cell from the person to be cloned, often a skin cell. Typically, scientists suck out the nucleus using a hollow needle, but the Korean team instead made a small tear in the egg and gently squeezed out the nucleus. They inserted a skin cell through the tear, then jolted the cells with an electric shock to fuse the cells and begin cell division.
I also found it interesting that we are debating spending hundreds of million of dollars, the Korean stem cell study funded on $200,000 a year.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SEO272559.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67599,00.html
At 08:58 AM 5/27/2005, Silas Shelburne wrote:
Good thinking Carol,
If you find a way to open some eyes let me know if I can help. What if us all quads and family and friends sign a petition or write a letter with all our signatures, maybe it would make them (Bush) relize just how many votes we represent. Hell lets get our heads together and think of something before its to late. There's little quad willing to donate her eggs to help. Your so sweet! It should be our choice, hell this is a free country. If someone like little quad won'ts to donate her left over eggs, who has the right to stop her? Come on guys, some of you really know how the system works.
Silas
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- Subject: [QUAD-L] RE: stem cells
- In my opinion most of the dilemma is about aborted fetuses. Majority of the people think that these poor little babies are killed and then buried. This is very far from the truth. These fetuses DO NOT get buried. They get INCINERATED and are useless to anyone.
- I believe we need to get this fact out in mass publication to the general public. Perhaps then most would change their minds.
- I also think we should get out of Iraq and the middle east and use that money towards stem cell research. We need to focus on ourselves instead of war.
- Just my thoughts
- Carol in KY
