Life Unfolding Quotes

“the existence of such cells is not universally welcomed because their founder colonies can be obtained only through the destruction of an early human embryo. For some people, the fact that an early human embryo has the potential to become a human being means that it should always be accorded full human status.”
― Jamie A Davies, Life Unfolding: How the human body creates itself

“Embryonic stem cells have made a major impact on biomedical research over the past decade or so. Scientists routinely make specific, designed alterations to the genes of mouse ES cells and then inject some of these cells into the inner cell mass of a normal mouse embryo. The mouse that results has a body that is a mixture of normal cells, from the un-manipulated inner cell mass, and the genetically modified cells from the engineered ES cells.”
― Jamie A Davies, Life Unfolding: How the human body creates itself