If you could cure cancer, eradicate a disease or given an infertile couple a child would you? I would bet you said yes and that is what scientist have been trying to do for over 50 years with cloning.
According to the American Medical Association, cloning is defined as “the production of genetically identical organisms via somatic cell nuclear transfer. ‘Somatic cell nuclear transfer’ refers to the process in which the nucleus of a somatic cell of an existing (or previously existing) organism is transferred into an oocyte from which the nucleus has been removed.” (Pros and Cons of Human Cloning, 2017). There are three different types of cloning: gene, reproductive and therapeutic. Of the three types the ones that are under much debate is reproductive and therapeutic cloning.
Reproductive cloning is producing an embryo that is implanted in a host womb and once gestation is completed a live animal is born. Therapeutic cloning is creating …show more content…
In a family near where I live the parents, four children and all grandchildren died of Huntington’s disease. Had they had the option of cloning they could have singled out the gene responsible and replaced it.
The most famous case of reproductive cloning was in 1996 when a Scottish researcher Dr. Ian Wilmut cloned a sheep named Dolly. In the creation of Dolly in order to get one viable embryo 276 were created and destroyed due to many different factors including disfigurement. Wilmut, the scientist responsible for Dolly stated to the United States Congress “that cloning a mammal involved high failure rate, since of his 277 “reconstructed” embryos, only 29 were implanted in ewes and only one developed successfully. “Similar experiments with humans would be totally unacceptable.” (Human Cloning Ethical Issues,
According to the American Medical Association, cloning is defined as “the production of genetically identical organisms via somatic cell nuclear transfer. ‘Somatic cell nuclear transfer’ refers to the process in which the nucleus of a somatic cell of an existing (or previously existing) organism is transferred into an oocyte from which the nucleus has been removed.” (Pros and Cons of Human Cloning, 2017). There are three different types of cloning: gene, reproductive and therapeutic. Of the three types the ones that are under much debate is reproductive and therapeutic cloning.
Reproductive cloning is producing an embryo that is implanted in a host womb and once gestation is completed a live animal is born. Therapeutic cloning is creating …show more content…
In a family near where I live the parents, four children and all grandchildren died of Huntington’s disease. Had they had the option of cloning they could have singled out the gene responsible and replaced it.
The most famous case of reproductive cloning was in 1996 when a Scottish researcher Dr. Ian Wilmut cloned a sheep named Dolly. In the creation of Dolly in order to get one viable embryo 276 were created and destroyed due to many different factors including disfigurement. Wilmut, the scientist responsible for Dolly stated to the United States Congress “that cloning a mammal involved high failure rate, since of his 277 “reconstructed” embryos, only 29 were implanted in ewes and only one developed successfully. “Similar experiments with humans would be totally unacceptable.” (Human Cloning Ethical Issues,