new joiners are: Italy, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine...
By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News
An embryo at the blastocyst stage
Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine, say US scientists.
The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem cells, which can make new heart muscle, bone, brain tissue or any other type of cell in the body.
The study,
published in the journal Cell, used methods like those that produced Dolly the sheep in the UK.
However, researchers say other sources of stem cells may be easier, cheaper and less controversial.
Opponents say it is unethical to experiment on human embryos and have called for a ban.
Stem cells are one of the great hopes for medicine. Being able to create new tissue might be able to heal the damage caused by a heart attack or repair a severed spinal cord.
There are already trials taking place using stem cells taken from donated embryos
to restore people's sight.
However, these donated cells do not match the patient so they would be rejected by the body. Cloning bypasses this problem.
Cloned babies?
Could scientists fully clone a person? It's an interesting question that emerges from this research.
These researchers have certainly developed a cloned embryo further than anyone else.
But producing a five-day-old embryo is a world away from a woman giving birth to the first human clone.
The embryo would need to be implanted as per IVF, but primate research shows that things often go wrong before the clone is born.
Prof Robin Lovell-Badge of the UK National Institute for Medical Research said: "It is an unsafe procedure in animals and it will similarly be an unsafe procedure in humans. For this reason alone it should not be attempted."
It would also be illegal in some countries, such as the UK, which differentiate between "therapeutic" and "reproductive" cloning.
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Cloned babies, some of them are in Brighton now, kids, adults ).
08/02/2014
Because the science has succedeed in some way with the human clonage experiments, they were not
in total control of the situation. Some of the clones were also taking the place of the original clone.
Which means, that at some stage of the cloning evolution, doctors and other scientists were not able to identify who was who anymore.
That has caused them so many problems for so many years, even now in 2014, that has simply resulted in termination of their projects, murders, or finding a place for the too many numbers of the clones.
Why so many clones of the same person ? Especially if you knew that they were more and more deficient ?
Some of the clones were also used by aliens.
(Anthony Adonon)
The Global Technology Revolution
Summary
Life in 2015 will be revolutionized by the growing effect of multidisciplinary technology across all dimensions of life: social, economic, political, and personal. Biotechnology will enable us to identify, understand, manipulate, improve, and control living organisms (including ourselves). The revolution of information availability and utility will continue to profoundly affect the world in all these dimensions. Smart materials, agile manufacturing, and nanotechnology will change the way we produce devices while expanding their capabilities. These technologies may also be joined by "wild cards" in 2015 if barriers to their development are resolved in time.
The results could be astonishing. Effects may include significant improvements in human quality of life and life span, high rates of industrial turnover, lifetime worker training, continued globalization, reshuffling of wealth, cultural amalgamation or invasion with potential for increased tension and conflict, shifts in power from nation states to non-governmental organizations and individuals, mixed environmental effects, improvements in quality of life with accompanying prosperity and reduced tension, and the possibility of human eugenics and cloning.
The actual realization of these possibilities will depend on a number of factors, including local acceptance of technological change, levels of technology and infrastructure investments, market drivers and limitations, and technology breakthroughs and advancements. Since these factors vary across the globe, the implementation and effects of technology will also vary, especially in developing countries. Nevertheless, the overall revolution and trends will continue through much of the developed world.
The fast pace of technological development and breakthroughs makes foresight difficult, but the technology revolution seems globally significant and quite likely.
Interacting trends in biotechnology, materials technology, and nanotechnology as well as their facilitations with information technology are discussed in this report. Additional research and coverage specific to information technology can be found in Hundley et al., 2000, and Anderson et al., 2000 [212, 213].{
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The Revolution of Living Things
Biotechnology will begin to revolutionize life itself by 2015. Disease, malnutrition, food production, pollution, life expectancy, quality of life, crime, and security will be significantly addressed, improved, or augmented. Some advances could be viewed as accelerations of human-engineered evolution of plants, animals, and in some ways even humans with accompanying changes in the ecosystem. Research is also under way to create new, free-living organisms.
The following appear to be the most significant effects and issues:
- Increased quantity and quality of human life. A marked acceleration is likely by 2015 in the expansion of human life spans along with significant improvements in the quality of human life. Better disease control, custom drugs, gene therapy, age mitigation and reversal, memory drugs, prosthetics, bionic implants, animal transplants, and many other advances may continue to increase human life span and improve the quality of life. Some of these advances may even improve human performance beyond current levels (e.g., through artificial sensors). We anticipate that the developed world will lead the developing world in reaping these benefits as it has in the past.
- Eugenics and cloning. By 2015 we may have the capability to use genetic engineering techniques to "improve" the human species and clone humans. These will be very controversial developments--among the most controversial in the entire history of mankind. It is unclear whether wide-scale efforts will be initiated by 2015, and cloning of humans may not be technically feasible by 2015. However, we will probably see at least some narrow attempts such as gene therapy for genetic diseases and cloning by rogue experimenters. The controversy will be in full swing by 2015 (if not sooner).
Thus, the revolution of biology will not come without issue and unforeseen redirections. Significant ethical, moral, religious, privacy, and environmental debates and protests are already being raised in such areas as genetically modified foods, cloning, and genomic profiling. These issues should not halt this revolution, but they will modify its course over the next 15 years as the population comes to grips with the new powers enabled by biotechnology.
The revolution of biology relies heavily on technological trends not only in the biological sciences and technology but also in microelectromechanical systems, materials, imaging, sensor, and information technology. The fast pace of technological development and breakthroughs makes foresight difficult, but advances in genomic profiling, cloning, genetic modification, biomedical engineering, disease therapy, and drug developments are accelerating.
Issues in Biotechnology
Despite these potentials, we anticipate continuing controversy over such issues as:
- Eugenics;
- Cloning of humans, including concerns over morality, errors, induced medical problems, gene ownership, and human breeding;
- Gene patents and the potential for either excessive ownership rights of sequences or insufficient intellectual property protections to encourage investments;
- The safety and ethics of genetically modified organisms;
- The use of stem cells (whose current principal source is human embryos) for tissue engineering;
- Concerns over animal rights brought about by transplantation from animals as well as the risk of trans-species disease;
- Privacy of genetic profiles (e.g., nationwide police databases of DNA profiles, denial of employment or insurance based on genetic predispositions);
- The danger of environmental havoc from genetically modified organisms (perhaps balanced by increased knowledge and control of modification functions compared to more traditional manipulation mechanisms);
- An increased risk of engineered biological weapons (perhaps balanced by an increased ability to engineer countermeasures and protections).
Nevertheless, biomedical advances (combined with other health improvements) will continue to increase human life span in those countries where they are applied. Such advances are likely to lengthen individual productivity but also will accentuate such issues as shifts in population age, financial support for retired people, and increased health care costs for individuals.
The Revolution of Materials, Devices, and Manufacturing
Materials technology will produce products, components, and systems that are smaller, smarter, multi-functional, environmentally compatible, more survivable, and customizable. These products will not only contribute to the growing revolutions of information and biology but will have additional effects on manufacturing, logistics, and personal lifestyles.
Smart Materials Several different materials with sensing and actuation capabilities will increasingly be used to combine these capabilities in response to environmental conditions. Applications that can be foreseen include:
- Clothes that respond to weather, interface with information systems, monitor vital signs, deliver medicines, and protect wounds;
- Personal identification and security systems; and
- Buildings and vehicles that automatically adjust to the weather.
Increases in materials performance for power sources, sensing, and actuation could also enable new and more sophisticated classes of robots and remotely guided vehicles, perhaps based on biological models.
Agile Manufacturing Rapid prototyping, together with embedded sensors, has provided a means for accelerated and affordable design and development of complex components and systems. Together with flexible manufacturing methods and equipment, this could enable the transition to agile manufacturing systems that by 2015 will facilitate the development of global business enterprises with components more easily specified and manufactured across the globe.
Anthony Adonon
The World is now changing towards a future more humanised...Here is a situation when scientists want to enhance humans using cloning, and other technological products they can find.
Back in the 80's up to the early 90's, some people in France were already able to do much more than what some of the grand empires of the World are spending billions in achieving.
By this I mean, the technology enhancement is not only already existing, but their new products and discoveries are already obsolete.
I've mentioned it many times before, and demonstrated before the eyes of some reputedly known scientists,
some searchers, and best athletes, it is possible to do so and so... if you know how.
There is no need to always be spending billions.
Some scientists think that they are developing a technology, but they are only responding to hidden alien's demands to better the alien's quality of life, not the one of Humans.
It is now clear to me, that the ones that are in Brighton UK, and it is possible, dispatched all over the world: People don't want them !
When you are forced to share a part of your life with them it is easy to understand why.
One day, and this is soon to happen, Humans, will see what they are able to achieve, is not meant to
be shared with aliens.
A suivre...