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Our baby died of SIDS; we have her cord blood
egoldman45 ( 04/16/2004, 16:37:50 )I am on the faculty at a Medical School in the USA. My wife and I had our first and only child recently, a wonderful little girl who died inexplicably at 8 weeks. A friend has set up a memorial website for her: . We had her cord blood harvested and saved at her birth, and it is in a blood bank. Cord blood is filled with stem cells; reproductive cloning of mammals to date, to my knowledge, has used somatic cell nuclei. Think how much better it would be to use the nucleus from a stem cell! I know there's the risk that the clone would suffer the same fate as our daughter if the cause of death was genetic, but that's a chance I would be willing to take, given the weight of evidence that the origin of SIDS is stochastic and not genetic. (For example, I know of a case of identical twins, one of whom died of SIDS. The surviving twin was put on a monitor, and has been thriving, almost a year old now.) The cloning would not involve reproduction of a living human, but it would give our little girl another chance at life, as her identical twin, born at a later time (well, not entirely identical since the mitochondria would come from the egg donor, unless my wife provided the eggs). This project would be important not just for human cloning, but for understanding SIDS as well. Does anyone know of reputable programs where this could be attempted? Probably not in the USA because the Bush Administration has banned human cloning research.
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