Wednesday, 1 September 2004
Betterhumans > Virus Surfs Nerves to Deliver Brain-healing Genes
"By injecting the virus into the body in a more accessible region, we can target other neurons deep within the central nervous system or minimize the damage to sensitive regions, which may be caused by the injection procedure."
Article: Cloning from the dead claim attacked | New Scientist
Panayiotis Zavos, of the Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lexington, US, say his team has shown that cells taken from humans after death could be used for cloning. This latest work is purely experimental and no embryos were implanted for cloning, said Zavos, announcing the results at his own press conference in London, UK.
However, the claims were immediately met with both revulsion and scepticism from the UK scientific community.
The work is “both scientifically questionable and ethically unacceptable”, says Richard Gardner of the UK Royal Society's working group on stem cell research and cloning. “It is grossly misleading to suggest that you can replicate a loved one by producing a cloned person with the same genetic material.”
sanguma
secret murder committed by orders from sorcerers. The victim is waylaid, short posined thorns are inserted in to the base of his tongue, causing swelling and loss of speech. Then other thorns (usually from the wild sago plant) are pushed into vital organs, where they cause infection and eventual death.
and a tourist page for Papau New Guinea has this to say:
More: Sanguma means different things in different areas, as shown below. It can be glossed in English as ‘witchcraft’ or ‘assault sorcery’.I ran across an email correspondance which includes a deeper description of the linguistic roots.
and a tourist page for Papau New Guinea has this to say:
These sangumas are said to be humans during the day. But at night they posses another spirit that leaves the body behind in sleep. This evil spirit goes out into the night to hunt in the form of animals like dogs, pigs, cats, flying foxes or even in human form for human flesh.
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