Soul on Ice
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:46 am
Title is taken from Black Panther member Eldridge Cleaver but appropriate here:
\"Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths.
Scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken used the dead cell of a mouse that had been preserved at minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a temperature similar to frozen ground.
The scientists hope that the first-of-a-kind research will pave the way to restore extinct animals such as the mammoth.\"
All this is exciting and I would dearly love to see a Mammoth resurrected, but the ethical part is going to be cloning a child to replace the son or daughter who died. Could one refuse the grief stricken parents that right? I myself couldn't.
Will the day come that we all keep cells on ice so loved ones can kinda replace us? Will we want clones made of the truely gifted to continue their abilities for the benefit of mankind? Your thoughts.
\"Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths.
Scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken used the dead cell of a mouse that had been preserved at minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a temperature similar to frozen ground.
The scientists hope that the first-of-a-kind research will pave the way to restore extinct animals such as the mammoth.\"
All this is exciting and I would dearly love to see a Mammoth resurrected, but the ethical part is going to be cloning a child to replace the son or daughter who died. Could one refuse the grief stricken parents that right? I myself couldn't.
Will the day come that we all keep cells on ice so loved ones can kinda replace us? Will we want clones made of the truely gifted to continue their abilities for the benefit of mankind? Your thoughts.
