One wonders how to explain to a hospital that you don't want a blood transfusion from "synthetic" blood made from "spare" IVF embryos.
But developing blood made from the cells of spare IVF embryos will
raise difficult ethical issues for people not happy with the idea of
destroying embryos to create stem cells. It also raises the intriguing
philosophical question of whether the synthetic blood will have come
from someone who never existed. In theory, just one embryo could meet
the nation's needs.
Britain seems to be at the forefront of the technology, but The Independent reassures us that America will be able to pick up the slack now that Obama has promised more government aid to embryonic stem cell research.
As if embryonic stem cell technologies didn't seem vampiric enough...
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