UK boffins to breed syntho-blood from human embryos

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Yorkshirepudding

vampires #

Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 16:54 GMT

i can see it now

"i cant believe its not blood"

Luther Blissett

It's a welcome announcement? #

Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 16:54 GMT

Industrial scale abortion as an input to the manufacture of blood.

Quite a lot of metaphors turning into reality.

Dr Patrick J R Harkin

Hang on... #

Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 16:56 GMT

Isn't this how one of the Blade films starts?

Anonymous Coward

Frankensteins #

Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 16:56 GMT

Modern medicine eh?

"embryos originally harvested for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments."

So potential human beings - PEOPLE - in fact, just given a willing uterus.

I don't agree with the Pope or Dubya on much, but on this sort of shit they're spot on.

bird5

Legalize Adult Stem Cells #

Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 04:55 GMT

There is a group of physicians, patients and other interested people working together to get treatment with adult stem cells legalized in the U.S. as it should be. Please ask your family and friends to sign up ("JOIN"), and get as many doctors to sign up as well.

http://www.stemcelldocs.org/Media_Room.html

Gaz

@Frankensteins #

Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 14:07 GMT

Potential != Actual

You could argue the glint in your parents' eyes was a potential human being. A transfer ready IVF embryo is typically made up of a tiny handful of cells not even in the double figure range: http://www.advancedfertility.com/8-cell.htm

A tiny bunch of undifferentiated cells is not a "person". The difficulty of course is in deciding when the cells in an embryo become more than the sum of their parts and thus a person.

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