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If you choose to follow any links to the abstract and/or complete text of the item listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Carl Feldbaum Some History Should be Repeated. (... a short opinion piece in which the author compares the current [late 2002] debate/furor over the future of the human applications of somatic cell nuclear transfer [SCNT], or cloning to the introduction of and debate about another seemingly revolutionary and controversial technology, recombinant DNA technology, in the later 1970's. The author states that reason must prevail over sensationalism as it did in the recombinant DNA debate. The author describes cloning as a a promising avenue of research that may lead to many therapeutic breakthroughs. He further states, however, that many groups and individuals fear that SCNT may be used for cloning a human being and, thus, advocate a total ban of the technology. The author recommends that rather than banning SCNT to prevent human reproductive cloning, the use of SCNT for therapeutic cloning and therapeutic research other than human reproductive cloning should be permitted. Other keywords and phrases -- clone, cloned, clones, humans -- from the abstract of the article available through the database, General Science Abstracts) Science Volume 295, Number 5557 (February 8, 2002): 975. **For a later discussion of this opinion, please see the article "Human Embryos: Potential Humans?" by Fritz Baumgartner in Science Volume 296, Number 5575 (June 14, 2002): 1967-1968. A reply by Carl Feldbaum follows the Baumgartner letter.** How to find the above journal, magazine, or other publication? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions? Please let me know. |
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