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pleco
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Posted - 09/09/2005 :  13:16:01  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1500&slug=Britain%20Embryo

quote:
LONDON -- Britain has granted permission to scientists to create a human embryo with genetic material from two mothers, officials said.

Scientists from Britain's Newcastle University plan to transfer the pro-nuclei - the components of a nucleus of a human embryo - by a man and woman into an unfertilized egg from another woman to prevent mothers passing certain genetic diseases to their unborn babies.


Just wondering if religious people would consider this to be a human with a soul.

by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.

the_ignored
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Posted - 09/09/2005 :  14:48:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message
You can read about their reaction here.

>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.
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pleco
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Posted - 09/09/2005 :  15:48:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
Like this one:

quote:
that's very disturbing!! It's a matter of days for the [anti-christ] show his face to the world...


What a bunch of nutters! lol

It was interesting to read most reactions seemed to be shapened by sci-fi horror movies and that goddamned "left behind" bullshit.

garbage in, garbage out

by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.
Edited by - pleco on 09/09/2005 15:49:19
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filthy
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 09/09/2005 :  15:59:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
As Atrios would say: "Heh, indeedy!"

Indeedy indeed, I would never have thought that the Mormons would get into the genetics game.


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and Crypto-Communist!

Edited by - filthy on 09/09/2005 16:03:09
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Dude
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Posted - 09/09/2005 :  19:03:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message

It seems the obvious way to prevent genetic disease passed on via mitochondrial DNA.

Wonder if they remove the nucleus of the unfertilized donor egg first?


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Dr. Mabuse
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Sweden
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Posted - 09/10/2005 :  15:14:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by the_ignored

You can read about their reaction here.

This link is currently unavailable. Either it was moved, or deleted.

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marfknox
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Posted - 09/10/2005 :  15:56:04   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message
When I just glanced at the title of this article, I vaguely imagined lesbians everywhere grinning and saying "Sweet."

But the title of the article, while not inaccurate, is slightly misleading. I mean, they didn't make an embryo out of only genetic material from two women. They used the mitochondrial DNA from one and put it with nuclear DNA from both a man and a woman.

So perhaps bisexual polyamorous threesomes everywhere are grinning and saying "Sweet".




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