Thursday, July 17, 2008

Guillaume Seignac Psyche painting

Mark Rothko Blue Green and Brown 1951 painting
Guillaume Seignac Psyche painting
But Jaenisch feels despite his team's findings that stem cells are unpredictable, therapeutic cloning remains safe."Even though therapeutic cloning creates embryonic stem cells through cloning, as long as you have some normal cells around and you're not creating an entire clone you counteract any abnormalities," he says. Bloated Mice, Overweight DollyScientists have already had visible evidence that cloned animals are not normal. Cloned mice have developed into extremely overweight animals, cloned cows have been born with abnormally large hearts and lungs. Even Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal (who turns 5 years old today), is inexplicably overweight, says Jaenisch."Look at Dolly — she's fat — as are many cloned mice," says Jaenisch. "Clearly something is going on that we don't quite understand."

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