Say no to human clones

• Autores: Marcy Darnovsky
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3163, 2018, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Darnovsky discusses why human reproductive cloning must stay off limits. A few outliers claimed to be on the verge of producing human clones, including members of a "UFO religion". A number of scientists and fertility doctors argued that human reproductive cloning should proceed once safety wrinkles were worked out. Nature called it inevitable. But it soon became clear that most efforts to clone mammals failed, and that non-human primate cloning was especially hard. Most scientists concluded it was too dangerous to attempt in people. Now we have the two cloned macaques. The failure rate was very high, with two reportedly healthy offspring born from 79 implanted embryos. And the method uses fetal cells, so it is no good for the favorite scenarios of human clone advocates: replacing a dead child, creating a genetically identical "saviour sibling" or recreating an Albert Einstein