It’s always encouraging when we get news like this:

Researchers who tried to use mouse, cow and rabbit eggs to make human clones said on Monday the effort failed to produce workable embryos but added that they showed human cloning should work in principle.

Mixing human and animal cells does not appear to program the egg properly, said Dr. Robert Lanza of Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology.

“The idea was to simply to plunk a patient’s DNA into an empty cow or rabbit egg — and presto — you reprogram the DNA back into a stem cell,” Lanza said in a telephone interview.

But teams that have tried to do this have always ended up with what looks like a cell dividing over and over to become an embryo, but which eventually fizzles out.

“For the last decade, we’ve carried out literally hundreds of experiments trying to create patient-specific stem cells using animal eggs,” Lanza said.

The article goes on to explain that these cells just quit dividing after a period of time instead of continuing to grow and split.  Obviously there’s something missing.  I wonder what it might be that is missing?  The hand of the Creator?  The soul?  Interesting to speculate on why it doesn’t work, seeing as science tells us it is theoretically possible.

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