CHANGE OF ADDRESS... A New Blog for a New Era...

ANNOUNCING THE NEW, POST-iPS, BLOG: FROM 2009 UNTIL CLONING IS DEFEATED.

We are up and running with phase 2 of the web site for DO NO HARM: Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research at www.ethicalstemcellresearch.blogspot.com

The 'iPS' revolution in stem cell science in November 2007, which rendered cloning redundant, was called "an earthquake for both the science and ethics of stem cells". That earthquake has created a rupture so radical that we need to divide our web information into 'pre-iPS' and 'post-iPS'.

The first post of the new Blog is the last post of this Blog - an obituary to cloning.

At the new Blog, we celebrate the triumph of ethical stem cell research, post november 2007, and work towards repeal of laws that permit cloning and experimentation on human embryos.

All material from 2003 to 2007 is still available at http://www.cloning.org.au/ and remains the foundation of our argument for ethical stem cell research.

Now, post-iPS, our Blog aims to keep you up to date with the most relevant breaking news and commentary on this exciting field of science, ethics and politics.

Early posts include:

Adult stem cells used safely in spinal cord injury http://ethicalstemcellresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/adult-stem-cells-used-safely-in-spinal.html
Geron ‘Claytons’ ESC trial – scientists and smart money smell a rat http://ethicalstemcellresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/geron-claytons-esc-trial-scientists-and.html
‘Why Embryonic Stem Cells are obsolete’ – the former head of the National Institue of Health explains
http://ethicalstemcellresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-embryonic-stem-cells-are-obsolete.html
Media release: OBAMA FLOGS DYING HORSE ON EMBRYO STEM CELLS http://ethicalstemcellresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/media-release-obama-flogs-dying-horse.html
Media Release - Stem Cell breakthrough: virus-free iPS cells http://ethicalstemcellresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/media-release-stem-cell-breakthrough.html

We intend to convince Federal MPs during next year's review of Australia's cloning laws that cloning was justified on a now-false premise (that only SCNT can produce patient-matched plutipotent stem cells). Cloning is now a redundant science; no cloning law would ever have seen the light of day if MPs had known a few years ago what we know now. This grotesquely inhuman science has no putative uses now, only abuses, and must be closed down.

Ethical stem cell science will continue to thrive without the con-science of cloning.