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Government funding primate cloning
libfemme ( 06/03/2004, 10:16:54 )Since 1991, the Center for Public Integrity has found, the National Institutes of Health has given more than three dozen grants for cloning-related research in nonhuman primates such as rhesus monkeys. Tt will ultimately bring human cloning closer to reality.According to one grant proposal, one of the goals of one research project is "to produce at least ten cloned [non-human primates] by overcoming unanticipated hurdles" that was "discovered during primate cloning." The lead researcher on one of the grants is Don Wolf, known for the creation of sibling rhesus monkeys from cloned monkey embryos. He denies that cloning of primates would necessarily lead to human reproductive cloning. "First of all, you need to say that the reason we are trying to perfect the technology is because you want to use it in nonhuman primates." "There is no rational justification for cloning nonhuman primates predicated on the interest in humans," he said. "Fact of the matter is we have far more experience in humans with doing test-tube babies and assisted reproductive technology than we do in monkeys. I wouldn't buy the argument that establishing cloning technology in monkeys is going to impact reproductive human cloning technology in humans." Cloning opponent Fiester says given the furious pace of scientific advances in the field a human clone is a very real possibility. "Whenever the primate [cloning] technique has been perfected, it will propel someone somewhere in the world, maybe the Chinese, maybe the Koreans, who will try to clone a human being," she said. "I don't see pragmatically how there's any stopping it. Maybe in the United States, maybe somewhere in the world, someone is going to do it, if [the primate cloning technique] gets perfected in nonhuman primates."
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