Here's the latest and greatest:
http://www.newscient...p?id=ns99996758
Macaque monkey embryos have been cloned! Yeehaa! Next we need to do man's closest cousin, the chimpanzee.
If cloning techniques can be refined to the level of reliably cloning monkeys, we should be in spitting distance of doing humans.
Again, I'm totally against cloning humans to make human beings, but very much in favor of cloning to get lots of stem cells.
Could we ever one day have "in situ" or "in vivo" cloning? Like say you're an amputee without legs, and we anti-differentiate the cells at your stumps to turn into stem cells, then they grow to become new legs. Stuff like that would be the ultimate in regenerative medicine -- the Holy Grail. Can anyone envision anything superior or more useful that that?
