Robert Lanza
Robert Lanza
Robert Lanzais a prominent American medical doctor and scientist. He is currently Head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine, and is Chief Scientific Officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 February 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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When science tries to resolve its conflicts by adding and subtracting dimensions to the Universe like houses on a Monopoly board, we need to examine our dogmas.
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I personally feel uncomfortable about someone going through such a painful procedure with no compensation for time.
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It's a stain on the honor and integrity of the whole field. It has sent a lot of scientists on a wild goose chase and down false paths.
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I think that we do have the technology at present to clone human embryos and it may be a lot easier than many scientists think.
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It's just a real shame that this has happened to him.
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They have no research experience in this area. In fact, they have never even cloned a mouse or a rabbit.
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We need to be honest with ourselves that a human embryo is a human embryo whether or not Cdx2 or any other gene is knocked out.
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When you get down to a few dozen members of a species you're really talking about very serious problems, ... So this is a tool. From now on that there's no need ever really to ever lose that genetic diversity that's remaining in these wild populations.
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We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
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Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
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Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
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Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.
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Unfortunately, the damage Hwang did can't be undone.
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Unfortunately, the damage Hwang did can't be undone. It can't be undone for us, and it can't be undone for the thousands of people who may die in the future because this research has been unnecessarily held up while (Hwang) played his games and traveled around the world like a rock star.