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A NEW WEBSITE FOR A NEW ERA OF STEM CELL SCIENCE

We are up and running with phase 2 of the web site for DO NO HARM: Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research at www.ethicalstemcellresearch.blogspot.com

The 'iPS' revolution in stem cell science in November 2007, which has rendered cloning redundant, was called "an earthquake for both the science and ethics of stem cells". That earthquake has created a rupture so radical that we need to divide our web information into 'pre-iPS' and 'post-iPS'.

All material from 2003 to 2007, ‘pre-iPS’, is still available at this site (CONTINUE to cloning.org.au) and remains the foundation of our argument for ethical stem cell research.

Now, ‘post-iPS’, our new Blog celebrates the triumph of ethical stem cell research, and works towards repeal of laws that permit cloning and experimentation on human embryos.

We intend to convince Federal MPs during the 2010 review of Australia's cloning laws that cloning was justified on a ‘good-faith’ premise (that only SCNT-cloning can produce patient-matched plutipotent stem cells) but that with the advent of iPS, that premise is no longer valid. Cloning is now a redundant science; no cloning law would ever have seen the light of day if MPs had known a few years ago what we know now. The laws that underpin this redundant and unethical science must now be repealed.

Watch this space: ethical stem cell science will continue to thrive - a magnificent science we can all live with. The grotesquely inhuman science of embryo experimentation and cloning has no putative uses now, only abuses, and must be closed down.

Click here to PROCEED to the new Blog..

 

 Dr David van Gend
Dr David van Gend
National Director, Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research

 

 

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