In June, the prestigious journal Science published an article by the South Korean scientist Woo-Suk Hwang and an international team of co-authors describing how they had developed what were, in effect, “made to order” lines of human stem cells cloned from an adult. Although the scientific validity of their research is now the subject of several separate investigations, it is no less important to examine its ethical implications.
看似是2005年最为重大的科技进步正遭受质疑。6月份，著名的&lt;&lt;科学&gt;&gt;杂志发表韩国科学家黄禹锡以及一个国际合作小组的文章。该文描述他们如何制成从成人身上克隆而成的“预制的”干细胞株。尽管其研究的科学准确性正在同时接受不同的调查，但是，审查其伦理含义的重要性一点也不逊色。