Colin Clive plays the quintessential mad doctor of the title and Karloff is, of course, the monster he creates from spare human parts and brings to life.
But one need not be pro-life to be disturbed by the prospect of fetal farming or cloning to provide spare human parts.
But the sheer power of the approach makes it clear that, if properly harnessed, stem cells could serve as a warehouse of spare human parts.
This could instantly solve the vexing shortage of spare human parts commodities that, in tribute to the surgeons' success, are in increasingly short supply.
Scientists advising the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority HFEAalsolsaidaid that this knowledge could not come about without experiments on spare human IVF embryos donated for research.
On the one hand, people imagine robot wars that spare human death, but I fear that the more likely scenario is with drones where we feel a degree of separation when using a machine or robot and become less concerned about collateral damage and loss of innocent civilian life.
These cells, which scientists hope to develop into a variety of transplantable tissues, are derived from aborted fetuses and "spare" human embryos in fertility clinics.
Indeed, when applied to spare human embryos, it was observed that they consistently and preferentially hatched through the artificial hole (Cohen et al., 1990).
