GET ready for a new wave of medical tourism—desperately ill people heading to countries where cloning and embryonic stem cell technologies offer them treatments that are forbidden at home.
That could be the consequence of the growing division between countries that have given these technologies the green light and others that are trying to prohibit them. Therapeutic cloning, for instance, promises to yield new—if expensive—treatments for everything from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to diabetes and autoimmune disorders.
Last week news leaked out that Chinese scientists had made a big advance, harvesting embryonic stem cells (ESCs) from dozens of…
