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Advanced Cell Technology
clones first human embryo
■Although many object to
the cloning of human cells,
Dr. Michael West believes the
technology will help patients
By Seth Borenstein
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON (KRT) - A Mass
achusetts company said Sunday
that it had for the first time cloned
an early human embryo in an ex
periment intended to eventually
produce matching cells for patients
with a variety of diseases and for re
placement of human organs.
But the scientific bombshell also
raised the specter of cloning mature
human beings and was denounced
by politicians, specialists in the
ethics of biological research, and
supporters of the eventual use of
cloning for therapeutic purposes.
Scientists envision cloning skin
cells to create early versions of all
purpose type stem cells that could
be changed into many types of or
gans. This type of research is tout
ed as providing possible cures for
Parkinson’s Disease, diabetes and
other degenerative conditions.
“We had one embryo that went
to the six-cell stage,” Dr. Michael
West, president of Advanced Cell
Technology in Worcester, Mass.,
said on NBC. “Our dream is that
someday we could take a pa
tient’s cell, skin cell, and give
them back anything that they
needed to cure disease.”
West said he opposed cloning en
tire humans.
But bioethicist George Annas at
the Boston University School of
Public Health said cloning embryos
at early stages comes close to open
ing that possibility. “There’s no way
to get around that,” Annas said.
“This is a step in that direction.”
“It’s a major step down that
road,” added Arthur Caplan, direc
tor of the Center for Bioethics at
the University of Pennsylvania.
“But whether that road leads any
where, nobody knows.”
Annas, who like Caplan supports
stem cell research and even thera
peutic cloning, said West’s an
nouncement would only hurt sci
entists who want to do that work,
by raising opposition to it. Far more
work has to be done first on turning
stem cells into organs before scien
tists even have to worry about
cloning embryos for this purpose,
Annas said.
“I think it’s irresponsible to do
this,” Annas said.
Last summer, in a move sup
ported by the White House, the
House of Representatives ap
proved a measure that would
make it illegal to clone human
embryos for research. The Senate
is scheduled to take action on the
bill next February. Bush adminis
tration officials say the West an
nouncement Sunday strengthens
their case against any types of hu
man cloning and strict limits on
stem cell research.
“The Senate has a busy calendar,
but this shows why it’s important
for them to act,” said White House
spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise.
“The president has made it clear
that he is opposed to any type of
human cloning.”
“I don’t think we’re going to let
the cloning of human embryos go
on,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.,
said on NBC.
The National Right to Life Com
mittee denounced the move as
cloning “human entities who
would be killed in order to harvest
their stem cells.”
West called that reaction
“wrong.” He said the embryo in
question is “far smaller than the
head of a pin, with no body cells of
any kind. In fact, the embryo hasn’t
even decided if it’s going to become
one person or two persons. It’s that
undifferentiated at that point.”
Tony Pugh in Washington contributed
to this report. © 2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Afghanistan
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The official did not expect the
Marines or other U.S. ground troops
to join anti-Taliban Afghan fighters
in storming Kandahar itself if Taliban
defenders there don't surrender. But
that official also did not rule out the
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possibility that American special
forces might pursue some top Tal
iban leaders, either inside the city or
attempting to escape from it.
Earlier Sunday at Mazar-e-Sharif,
fewer than a hundred miles from
Kunduz, foreign Taliban fighters riot
ed inside a camp with weapons
smuggled inside and other weapons
captured from guards. After a fierce
battle that included U.S. air strikes on
the prisoners, an estimated 300 Tal
iban were dead — virtually all of
those who had taken up arms.
There were reports that U.S. per
sonnel were inside the camp, but it
was unclear whether there were
American casualties. Eyewitnesses
at the scene, including a Time maga
zine reporter and a television film
crew from Germany, said at least
one American may have died. U.S.
military officials said there were no
soldiers killed or wounded.
Abdullah Abdullah, the foreign
minister for the alliance, said
Afghan Taliban fighters should be
pardoned as they surrender, but for
eign soldiers fighting for the Taliban
should be treated as terrorists, and
Taliban leaders such as Mullah
Muhammad Omar should be tried
for war crimes.
Omar remained at large as about
3,000 anti-Taliban soldiers moved
toward two southern provinces
near the regime's last significant
holdout, the city of Kandahar. Bin
Laden, the suspected terrorist
leader, remained on the loose as
well. There were conflicting reports
on his whereabouts, but U.S. offi
cials continued to express confi
dence he would be found.
© 2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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