From: Wei Dai (weidai@eskimo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 18:50:44 MDT
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 12:01:22PM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> I'll go on record here that the cloning of any animal from adult
> cells is a very bad idea. Those cells have sustained damage
> of uncategorized significance. Most humans are the product
> of cells that happen to have survived damage inducing environments.
> Unless you introduce a natural selection sieve to filter the damaged
> programs -- reproductive cloning (as currently conducted) is a very
> bad idea.
How does reproduction work naturally? Do our bodies manage to keep our
germ cells from being damaged, or is there an internal sieve to filter out
the damaged germ cells? Can we make use of these natural mechanisms for
reproductive cloning?
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