The Head of China's human embryonic research team, Professor Li Jianyuan, explains that he and his team have found a new way to collect human stem cells.
Their method is to inject some of the donor's skin cells into a human egg.
He says that this could cure currently untreatable illnesses and could possibly provide organ transplants for those who need them.
His 'new' method still causes the cloned embryo's to be destroyed but most of the people in China are not worried by this as it is Chinese tradition that a person is a person only at birth.
The team to date have currently cloned 5 embryos
Not everyone hold the same value of human life however. Professor Zhai Xlaomei says, "Even though it is not considered as a human it is still a human embryo and we must treat it in a proper way according to ethics."
Ross McC
02 March 2009
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"to be destroyed but most of the people in China are not worried by this as it is Chinese tradition that a person is a person only at birth"- good view point to back up the pro-abortionist's views we looked at :P
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