It was said by Korean scientist, Woo Suk Hwang, that his team had finally derived stem-cell lines from cloned human embryos. These new lines were taken from patients skin cells with spinal-cord injuries. Using "therapeutic cloning", skin cells merged with eggs whose nuclei had been removed. This caused the new stem cells to be genetic matches for the patients. It is believed that this will replace unhealthy tissue without "fear of rejection". In some states in the United States, this procedure as been banned because they believe it could lead to human cloning. Doug Melton was actually given permission to further his studies so he could help create stem cells for people with Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and type 1 diabetes.
I started out thinking that this was a bad idea. In my own opinion it wrong to clone people. Then after reading on, I figured out that they are starting to clone stem cells to help cure people with Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and type 1 diabetes. My grandfather has diabetes and it is always nice knowing that someone will find a cure for something. Even though I thought cloning was bad, it still has it reasons for helping others in the future. It may even help me!
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