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February 24, 2007

Will Cloning Cure Diabetes?

When Governor Chet Culver recently declared that "it's really up to the 100 state representatives now to decide if they want to give hope and opportunity to tens of thousands of people" he surrounded himself with children who have juvenile diabetes and proposed embryonic stem cell research and cloning as pathway to cure diabetes.

What the Governor failed to say and what the parents of these children apparently do not know is that even the most vigorous proponents of human cloning for research purposes, such as Ian Wilmut (head of the team that created Dolly), admit that stem cells from cloned embryos will not treat juvenile diabetes.

Posted by Diabetologica at February 24, 2007 3:42 PM