Gamete intrafallopian transfer

There is no doubt that science has created and supplied us with many beneficial materials things such as electricity, communication and medicine. But, with all this already magnificent inventions will there ever come a day where scientists and mankind might become too curious? A day when inventions might be made that turn out to be dangerous and harmful to us? The scary realization is that that day has already came. Scientific studies are getting more bizarre as the days go by and with that…

There are many different implications, however, there are few as controversial as therapeutic human cloning. Think of the human body as a machine for a moment. We are comprised of finely tuned mechanisms that work in harmony to allow us to live. Each of these cogs, however, are fragile and can be defective or wear-out. One solution to this problem is to supply spare parts, if you will. Well, where do these parts come from? We currently use donors that can spare the necessary organs. This is a…

trust themselves enough to move with such rigor, so they conduct robots to perform the surgeries by control sticks. The robots are manipulated into cutting the eggs with the needles and expelling the DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. Once removed, it transfers the nucleus of a skin cell into the egg. One of the problems with stem cell research is that it takes a tremendous amount of eggs for a very small amount of stem cell lines, but it can still be very helpful in fighting the tribulations of man.…

Cloning pets might not be the holy grail that everyone is hoping for. In 1996, scientists were celebrating the success in cloning their first mammal, Dolly the sheep. Recently, they found a way to clone monkeys using the same technique. Now, anyone willing to pay the price can get their beloved pet cloned. But cloning has some serious downsides. Cloning a pet can be very expensive and uses up hard-earned money. In addition, cloning a pet has countless of side effects and cloned animals have…

Cloning is nothing new. Organisms are considered clones when their entire DNA is identical. Clones are able to happen naturally as is the example of biological twins or they can be made in a lab through modern technologies. The three types of cloning that currently exist are: reproductive cloning, gene cloning, and therapeutic cloning. Cloning an organism is different from cloning a gene. The process of cloning an organism involves making an exact genetic copy of the whole thing rather than…

-In a SCNT, the nucleus of an egg cell is removed and it becomes an enucleated egg cell. -The nucleus is removed because the nucleus contains the majority of the genetic information (DNA). -DNA has a double helix structure and it is made from many nucleotides -Nucleotides are made from a nitrogen base (Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, or Thymine), a phosphate group, and a deoxyribose. -The DNA is stored in the nucleus as chromatin, but during cell division the DNA stored as chromatin condense into…

Therapeutic Cloning Imagine a day when the blind could see, with an optic nerve transplant, that day could be today using therapeutic cloning. Cloning for therapeutic purposes (also called research cloning and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a type of cloning with the goal of harvesting embryonic stem cells to grow tissues and other biological products with therapeutic value (Nicholson 2001). According to the article “How to Make a Stem Cell”, an embryo, by day five, contains…

I believe epigenetic marks are inherited and not completely erased. Research has shown that many epigenetic marks remain, and genetic information is passed from one generation to the next, this process is called epigenetic inheritance. The science of epigenetic inheritance goes against conventional wisdom that “that inheritance happens only through the DNA code that passes from parent to offspring” (Epigenetics and Inheritance, 2016). Basically, it means that the historical experiences from…

Somatic cell nuclear transfer is taking the nucleus from the cell of a mature animal and inserting it into an embryo, very different from and much more difficult than regular nucleus transfer. The struggle with this type of transfer is that adult genes have already differentiated and “shut down” unlike embryonic cells and in order to complete the transfer scientists must reset these cells to their embryonic state. A considerable amount…

Cloning is the process of creating a new organism that is genetically identical to a single common ancestor. Genetic information from a single parent organism is copied. Cloning is done by nuclear transfer, which is when the nucleus of an egg is removed and replaced with a nucleus from a donor cell. Energy is created in order to jumpstart the cells to start dividing. There are two types of cloning: Therapeutic cloning and Reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning is when the cloned cells are…