I don't know if I find this more or less frightening, but it seems as though the Korean scientist who published fraudulent data from his stem cell experiments may have accidentally stumbled upon a major breakthrough in the field. He "inadvertently created cells that were derived by "parthenogenesis", a method by which unfertilised eggs start to divide to form embryos asexually."
The question is, does this make it ethically neutral? If the embryo is chemically "tricked" into development, what does that mean exactly? I don't know. I haven't got the scientific background to understand it all, and even if I did I don't know how one would go about navigating this ethical quagmire.
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