Cloning Mice and Men: Prohibiting the Use of iPS Cells for Human Reproductive Cloning

Autor: Pui-Yan Kwok, Elena Gates, Richard L. Wagner, Susan J. Fisher, Linda C. Giudice, Arnold R. Kriegstein, Bernard Lo, Bruce R. Conklin, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Marcelle I. Cedars, Dina Gould Halme, Lindsay Parham, William Hershon
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Cell Stem Cell. 6(1):16-20
ISSN: 1934-5909
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2009.12.004
Popis: The use of iPSCs and tetraploid complementation for human reproductive cloning would raise profound ethical objections. Professional standards and laws that ban human reproductive cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer should be revised to also forbid it by other methods, such as iPSCs via tetraploid complementation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE