Jerry Brito

A big deal for us: Cloning isn’t a big deal in Asia

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clone-made-in-china While the White House is pushing a ban on human cloning, we keep seeing breakthroughs overseas. It’s no surprise that the most important cloning research is taking place in Asian countries that aren’t burdened by Christian prudishness. Not only are advances that could help real, suffering patients being sacrificed for the ‘rights’ of embryos, but the nascent biotech industry is being smothered.

This is an area where the U.S. does have a comparative advantage and where we should lead in the global marketplace. Yet there’s a reverse brain-drain of good American scientists who are leaving our universities and firms for countries like China, where the government happily and lavishly funds and encourages their research. Talk about a giant sucking sound.

Feb 13, 2004 | Comments