Even cloned human embryos like coffee

[mistermack]

This cloning research has reached the stage of several hundred cells, of a cloned human being.
They don't like to call it an embryo, for the usual '' ethical '' reasons. But as human clones previously self destructed at the 8-16 cell stage, this is going a lot further.

Dolly the sheep was born 17 years ago, so you would think that they would have made enough progress to clone humans by now. Maybe they have, but are keeping it quiet for legal reasons.

Once you are up to hundreds of cells, you would think that the process would just keep going. They must be stopping them, so that they can't be accused of destroying embryos.

Anyway, the recipe seems to involve an aa battery, and a bit of caffeine. I could manage that.
It doesn't look any harder than refilling a printer cartridge :

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1561 ... an-embryos

[Faithfree]

I can't see why cloning a human would be any harder to clone than a sheep - both mammals of equal complexity on a biological level.

[mistermack]

I can't see why cloning a human would be any harder to clone than a sheep - both mammals of equal complexity on a biological level.

Me too.
Reading through that, you would think that it is much harder, but of course, what's stopping it is so-called ethics.
The laws in various places make no distinction between a cloned fetus, and a non-cloned one.

I would personally have no problems with implanting eggs in volunteer women. My ethics are in relation to actual humans, not potential ones. If we allow abortion up to a certain date, for other pretty thin reasons, then that consent should be extended to cover research in cloning.