To: firstman who wrote (3 ) 7/29/1998 1:22:00 PM From: Nescom Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 473
Firstman you apparently have selective scruples being an investor of CYGS. There are other articles concerning this company business practices on human beings! At least MYGD has a permit from the government in order to do any cutting of the hardwood. Supporting CYGS like you do is sick man. Nescom out- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aborted babies being frozen for future cloning ÿ 12/15/97 Singapore Straits Times Copyright, STP (1975) Limited ÿ LONDON -A group of women have deep-frozen their aborted foetuses so they can resume the pregnancies years later, using techniques developed by the Scottish team that produced Dolly, the cloned sheep. The Sunday Times said that the women had paid a private company (pound)220 (S$574) for the eight to 11-week-old foetuses to be stored in liquid nitrogen in a laboratory for up to 10 years. The technologists involved hope that by the early years of the next century, hostility towards the manipulation of human reproduction would have dwindled, allowing cells from the foetuses to be used for cloning of genetically identical embryos which would be implanted in their genetic mothers or other women. Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh have already proved that the technology works in mammals, producing three lambs from a sheep foetus. The Times quoted Keith Campbell of PPL Therapeutics, who developed the technique, as saying that the research was still in its infancy. Dell Gibson of Cryogenic Solutions Incorporated, the American company offering the human technology, said: "We intended to set up a data bank for childless couples offering genetic information on both the mother and father of the foetus and let them select from it, if the woman who was the donor did not want to re-establish the pregnancy." The Roslin Institute technique takes the nucleus of a cell from a thawed foetus -which contains all the genetic material to create a new being -and puts it in an empty egg cell "envelope" from which the nucleus has been removed. The cell then begins to divide like a normal early embryo, and can be replaced in the womb and left to grow into a baby genetically identical to the one aborted. But it is unlikely that Britain would license a clinic to do this for humans.