Renewed Concerns for Women as Cloning Technology Advances

May 26, 2014

(Forbes) – One thing the recent cloning breakthroughs have highlighted is the lack of engagement with the issue from the bioethical perspective. In the space of a year, three different teams have succeeded in deriving embryonic stem cells from cloned human embryos: embryos that were generated by somatic cell nuclear transfer. From a therapeutic and research perspective, SCNT presents a valuable new tool to potentially treat various diseases in the clinic and to investigate at a patient specific level why such diseases (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, ALS) develop in the first place.