title: Cloning mice and men: prohibiting the use of iPS cells for human reproductive cloning.
abstract: The use of iPSCs and tetraploid complementation for human reproductive cloning would raise profound ethical objections. Professional standards and laws that ban human reproductive cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer should be revised to also forbid it by other methods, such as iPSCs via tetraploid complementation.
authors.affiliation: Program in Medical Ethics, Department of Medicine, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. bernie@medicine.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lo
authors.forename: Lindsay
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Parham
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alvarez-Buylla
authors.forename: Marcelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cedars
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Conklin
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gates
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Giudice
authors.forename: Dina Gould
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Halme
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hershon
authors.forename: Arnold
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kriegstein
authors.forename: Pui-Yan
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Kwok
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001675:Bioethics; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*