Moral Debate: Procedure Risks Making Monkeys More Humanlike
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The panel's report cites Kant, Mills and the Bible: "Humans are set apart by God as morally speical and are given stewardship over other forms of life"
"Many of us expected that, once we'd pooled our expertise, we'd be able to say why human cells would not produce significant changes in non-human brains," said the report's lead author Mark Greene, formerly of Johns Hopkins University and now a professor at the University of Delaware.
"But the cell biologists and neurologists couldn't specify limits on what implanted human cells might do, and the primatologists explained that gaps in our knowledge of normal non-human primate abilities make it difficult to detect changes.
"Many of us expected that, once we'd pooled our expertise, we'd be able to say why human cells would not produce significant changes in non-human brains," said the report's lead author Mark Greene, formerly of Johns Hopkins University and now a professor at the University of Delaware.
"But the cell biologists and neurologists couldn't specify limits on what implanted human cells might do, and the primatologists explained that gaps in our knowledge of normal non-human primate abilities make it difficult to detect changes.
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Monkeys take us a step closer to human cloning
However, success with primates had until now remained elusive.
British scientists say the breakthrough at the Oregon National Primate Research Center makes the creation of cloned human embryos a realistic possibility.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-494150/Monkeys-step-closer-human-...
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