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The clone embryo is merely a collection of dividing cells.
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The clone embryo is merely a collection of dividing cells. A more recent attempt to strip the clone of its humanity claims that the embryo clone is nothing more than dividing somatic cells that are no different, in kind or nature, than the cells you lose every day in your shower. Pro-cloner Alan Russell, executive director of the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, wrote in a recent opinion column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: All cells contain DNA, which gives them the ability to reproduce. But cloners have discovered that if one removes the DNA from mom's egg cell (producing an empty cell) and replaces it with her daughter's DNA, the newly produced cell can survive We then have in our hands a fresh cell which from now on will look like her daughter's cell In a dish, technology will exist to take that cell and simply convince it to multiply -- clone itself The process is called cloning because the new cell created in the...
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