Cloning has been around for longer than you may think. Many believe that cloning is a futuristic process, but the history of cloning dates back to more than a hundred years ago. The first ever attempt to clone was made by Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch in 1885, when he attempted to duplicate a sea urchin. As hard as it is to believe, many different animals have already been cloned, including frogs, mice, sheep and cows. Plants are frequently cloned, and you can even clone a plant at your house by simply cutting it. The first successful attempt to nuclear transfer an animal was made in 1952 by Robert Briggs and Thomas King who successfully nuclear transferred frogs. Cloning in the past and cloning in modern times are very distant from each other. Cloning has improved in many ways, after many attempts and after many different strategies were tested.
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Scientists haven’t cloned humans yet, but they are getting closer to cloning humans year after year. Scientists have already cloned human stem cells in 2013 by Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his team at Oregon National Primate Research Center. From a technical perspective, cloning humans and other primates is more difficult than in other mammals. It is more challenging because the cells require proteins essential to cell division. Also, multiple copies of an ancestor’s genes might bring several surprises. When critics say human cloning is about control, always remember that the free will of cloned human beings cannot be controlled by their genetic ancestors, because they have the freedom of think and acting the way they like. Cloning humans will, in the future help the human species overcome diseases that run in the bloodline of their inheritance of the person and it can be a solution to many surgeries where the survival rate is low. For this to happen though, technology has to improve drastically and cloning technology has to become more
Scientists haven’t cloned humans yet, but they are getting closer to cloning humans year after year. Scientists have already cloned human stem cells in 2013 by Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his team at Oregon National Primate Research Center. From a technical perspective, cloning humans and other primates is more difficult than in other mammals. It is more challenging because the cells require proteins essential to cell division. Also, multiple copies of an ancestor’s genes might bring several surprises. When critics say human cloning is about control, always remember that the free will of cloned human beings cannot be controlled by their genetic ancestors, because they have the freedom of think and acting the way they like. Cloning humans will, in the future help the human species overcome diseases that run in the bloodline of their inheritance of the person and it can be a solution to many surgeries where the survival rate is low. For this to happen though, technology has to improve drastically and cloning technology has to become more