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Robert Lanza
(11 Feb 1956 - )
American biologist and medical researcher whose biotechnology company, Advanced Cell Technologies, successfully cloned a human embryo in 2001, and also cloned near extinct (guar, 2001) and extinct (banteng, 2003) mammals. In 2005, Lanza and his colleagues developed a technique for generating embryonic stem cells that leaves the embryo viable.
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Science Quotes by Robert Lanza (3 quotes)
As immoral and unethical as this may be [to clone a human], there is a real chance that could have had some success. This is a pure numbers game. If they have devoted enough resources and they had access to enough eggs, there is a distinct possibility. But, again, without any scientific data, one has to be extremely skeptical.
Commenting on the announcement of the purported birth of the first cloned human.
Commenting on the announcement of the purported birth of the first cloned human.
— Robert Lanza
Transcript of TV interview by Sanjay Gupta aired on CNN (27 Dec 2002).
No one has ever done this before, … What we are trying to do here is to create a stem cell line without injuring an embryo. Our cells can go on to become a healthy, kicking baby.
— Robert Lanza
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We are, of course, extremely concerned that if this did, in fact, happen, that there is going to be a tremendous public outcry, and we will be concerned with what the Congress does, … Obviously, we are concerned about there being a backlash against the medical applications of this technology, which have, of course, the potential to cure millions of patients.
— Robert Lanza
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
