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This document is a news article or report describing a scientific breakthrough at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) led by biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov. The team successfully created human embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer to harvest stem cells, a process that could treat diseases but also raises ethical concerns regarding human cloning. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp, suggesting it is part of a larger congressional investigation, likely related to Jeffrey Epstein's known interest in transhumanism and cloning, although he is not explicitly named in this specific page.
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| Shoukhrat Mitalipov | Cell Biologist |
Led a team of 23 scientists at OHSU in the stem cell research.
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| 10 female volunteers | Donors |
Donated eggs for the research.
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| Oregon Health & Science University |
The institution where the stem cell research and cloning techniques were developed.
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| OHSU |
Acronym for Oregon Health & Science University.
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| Cell |
The journal where the methods were published.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' in the footer.
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Creation of human embryos (genetic copies) for stem cell harvesting.
Oregon Health & Science University
Shoukhrat Mitalipov
OHSU Scientists
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Implied location of Oregon Health & Science University.
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Shoukhrat Mitalipov led a team of 23 scientists
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"humans have cracked the biological secret to reproducing themselves."Source
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"the comprehensive guide could also be a useful handbook for cloning a baby."Source
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"That is an objective American scientists have squarely renounced as unethical and scientifically irresponsible."Source
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"most acknowledge that such 'reproductive cloning' will one day prove too tempting to resist."Source
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For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of human cloning.
If replicated in other labs, the methods detailed Wednesday in the journal Cell would allow researchers to fashion human embryonic stem cells that are custom-made for patients with Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and other health problems.
Theoretically capable of reproducing themselves indefinitely, these stem cells could be used to grow replacements for a wide variety of diseased cells — those of the blood, skin, heart, brain, muscles, nerves and more — that would not risk rejection by the patient's immune system.
The report also raises the specter that, with a high-quality donor egg, a bit of skin, some careful tending in a lab and the womb of a willing surrogate, humans have cracked the biological secret to reproducing themselves.
That is an objective American scientists have squarely renounced as unethical and scientifically irresponsible. At the same time, most acknowledge that such "reproductive cloning" will one day prove too tempting to resist.
In the hope that other researchers will validate and extend their results, the scientists at Oregon Health & Science University provided an exceptionally detailed account of their techniques. For anyone with a well-equipped fertility lab, the comprehensive guide could also be a useful handbook for cloning a baby.
OHSU cell biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov led a team of 23 scientists who methodically culled the lessons learned from stem cell research on amphibians, mice and rhesus monkeys — as well as from the abundant failures of others in the field. They devised a welter of new techniques to use the DNA of a fully formed skin cell in its most primitive embryonic form.
The approach they used — called somatic cell nuclear transfer — effectively strips an egg of its chromosomes and packs it instead with DNA from a donor.
Nurtured by a stew of nourishing chemicals and zapped with two jolts of electrical current, many of the eggs began to divide and grew for five to six days. At that point, the embryos had 64 to 200 cells, including a dense inner cell mass from which stem cells were extracted.
In past efforts to coax such an assemblage of components to life, researchers have burned through dozens of donor eggs without getting any embryos even to the 16-cell stage at which stem cells become a remote possibility.
This time, the researchers said their methods were so efficient that they could create at least one embryonic stem cell line from each batch of eggs donated by 10 female volunteers. In one case, a single donor produced eight eggs of such exceptional quality that researchers were able to derive four embryonic stem cell lines.
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