Monday, June 27, 2005

South Korean 'breakthrough' - bad news for babies

The 'stem cell wars' look set to 'hot up' again, as South Korean researchers announce that they have already cloned several human embryos from adult cells. This means that stem cell lines harvested from these embryos (destined to be killed) are 'tailor-made' for the patient who donated the cells from which they were cloned. Thus, if such an embryo is cloned from one of your cells, the stem cells produced from that embryo will not be rejected by your body and can thus be used to generate replacements for damaged or diseased tissues or organs.

Obviously, there is going to be a huge temptation, especially in an increasingly evolutionized world, for even Christians to bypass the clear statements of Scripture in the name of 'healing', and we are seeing this happen already. Dr Carl Wieland's article reports on this Korean 'breakthrough' and its implications in a just-released article.


Posted by: Jethro | 9:01 AM |