therapeutic cloning

  • major reference

    TITLE: cloning: Therapeutic cloning
    SECTION: Therapeutic cloning
    Therapeutic cloning is intended to use cloned embryos for the purpose of extracting stem cells from them, without ever implanting the embryos in a womb. Therapeutic cloning enables the cultivation of stem cells that are genetically identical to a patient. The stem cells could be stimulated to differentiate into any of the more than 200 cell types in the human body. The differentiated cells then...
    TITLE: cloning: Ethical controversy
    SECTION: Ethical controversy