| You are so correct in saying that stem cells can cure diseases; stem cells are already curing diseases. In fact, there are a brothers (Visconti brothers, I think, in New York) already using MAPCs to build organs! And that is without cloning or killing embryos for their stem cells. The brothers use a matrix structure upon which to grow tissues. The underlying matrix dissolves away leaving the desired structure formed from living stem cells differentiated into more specialized tissues.
In Texas, Texas A&M University has teamed up with a company called Genetic Savings and Clone, to clone people's favored pets! In 2002, they cloned a tabby named CC. Of course the clone was not an identical match to CC, due to the vagaries of cloning that the public is generally uninformed on, but the tissues would be a protein match for transplants, if that were the goal. And therein lies the catch, the cannibalizing catch. |