{"id":1386,"date":"2004-02-12T01:58:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T01:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2004-02-12T01:58:15","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T01:58:15","slug":"s-koreans-advance-in-stem-cell-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/s-koreans-advance-in-stem-cell-research\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Koreans advance in stem cell research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa M. Krieger<br \/>\nMercury News<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/local\/7933942.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">For the first time, scientists have cloned a human embryo and grown it to a stage where its stem cells could be harvested for transplants, an important medical advance that raises political and ethical questions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research, reported by South Korean scientists in today&#8217;s issue of the journal Science, could lead to cures for Parkinson&#8217;s disease and juvenile diabetes. But it also raises the specter of producing life only to destroy it for medical purposes &#8212; and brings science one step closer to creating a cloned baby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it can be replicated elsewhere, it means that we&#8217;ve taken a big step toward creating cells that match the DNA of a person who needs cell therapy, avoiding rejection problems,&#8221; said law Professor Hank Greely of Stanford University&#8217;s Center for Biomedical Ethics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other side,&#8221; added Greely, &#8220;is this: It might be possible to make a baby this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa M. Krieger Mercury News For the first time, scientists have cloned a human embryo and grown it to a stage where its stem cells could be harvested for transplants, an important medical advance that raises political and ethical questions. The research, reported by South Korean scientists in today&#8217;s issue of the journal Science, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4931],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloning","tag-cloning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}