Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, more than three years after becoming the first nation to authorize the technique to produce stem cells for medical research. A team of researchers at Newcastle University hope eventually to create insulin-producing cells that could be transplanted into diabetic patients.
Yup. Cloning embryos. Test-tube olympics. I dunno about you, but my sense of human decency is pretty well intact. And possibly, for the first time since this country was founded, the United States is going to be on the dull edge of what might be a sort of medical revolution akin to the discovery of antibiotics. Don't worry, there are plenty British universities who won't mind America's best and brightest taking jobs in their country and leaving the red tape to the land of the red states.
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