"Stem cells have been created in laboratory animals," we could have said, "but several attempts to do so in human tissue have been unsuccessful until now".
New orchids are being created in laboratories or discovered every day, and others exist only in tiny numbers in remote places.
When the cloning of Dolly the Sheep was revealed in 1997 there was an outpouring of hysteria about the prospect of multiple Saddam Husseins being created in laboratories.
More thoroughly than any other technology except, perhaps, that of the spaceship robots were imagined in print and on film long before they were created in laboratories and installed in factories (some of the cinematic imaginings serve to illustrate this special report).
Rather, they are created in laboratories like test-tube babies.
Conceived after a chance conversation with a NASA economist, the idea will realize a potential future of procreation where babies are created in laboratories and gestated in artificial wombs.
The bill -- modeled on an inexplicably overlooked effort by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal -- would ban the creation of "part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between species".
legislation is proposed by to ban the creation of "part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between the species," because this -- not the economy, or health care, or education -- is what's really important.
So what about getting pregnant naturally, or are all babies to be created in the laboratory in 2050 in artificial wombs using eggs harvested years before?
Now Harvard researchers, using private funds, propose to create new stem cell lines derived not from existing embryos, but from embryos that would be created in the laboratory for the purpose of studying specific diseases.
