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Stephen Cox looks at the use of chimeras in stem cell research
Two teams of researchers want to create 'chimeras'; embryos made from human skin cells, placed in an animal egg cell, and then tricked into dividing
Chimeras would be almost all human, their ordinary chromosome DNA would be human But some of their mitochondrial DNA – DNA outside the chromosomes – might be animal
There is no proposal to try to make these cells grow into people (and such an attempt would be illegal in Britain) This is being done as a way to produce 'stem cells', usually derived from embryos left over from IVF Stem cells have the potential to turn into every other sort of cell As such they have been widely touted as possible cures for a wide range of serious diseases, everything from heart attacks and strokes, through to diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's While stem cells are found in different parts of the body, many scientists believe only those derived from embryos will be sufficiently versatile
Stephen Cox, Westminster Monthly Meeting
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