Human cloning

To clone or not to clone: replicating living things isn’t all that bad, is it? Cloning hit the spotlight when Finn Dorset lamb 6LLS, otherwise known as Dolly the sheep, became the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. To produce Dolly, scientists used an udder cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep. They found a way to ‘reprogram’ the udder cells—to keep them alive but stop their growth—by altering the growth medium. Then they injected the cell into an unfertilized egg…

animals formed in animal cloning. Since the cloned animals are perfect copies of each other on a cellular level, the experiments performed should get more exact results. This is just one of the many uses for animal cloning. People have always questioned the ethics of the subject though when Dolly was first made. Animal cloning can provide us with clear cut conclusions, antibodies to diseases, actual copy cats, and can be used to solve the endangered species problem. Animal cloning might have…

Cloning: The Future of Medicine The first question most people ask doctors when they are told that they have a terminal disease is “How long do I have?” Once a person goes into hospice care the average survival is twenty-four days, but the average estimate doctors give their patients is around ninety days. Many people with terminal illness could be saved if the advances in organ cloning allow for cloning organs to be considered commonplace and, most importantly, legal. Clones are…

Cloning is something that has come up very often in the past few years. The technology of cloning has been researched and attempted; it was tried with sheep and cows. But it’s a touchy subject as it pertains to the soul, what role do God play in this and what kind of life would the person/animal have. But there seem to be some advantages of the process of cloning. For humans you could live longer, they may even be able to find cures for terminal illnesses like such as AIDS and cancer. Would…

The very thought of cloning has been a very controversial ideal. Since the cloning of the sheep named Dolly on July 5, 1996, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell (Freudenrich, 2001). People have had great concerns about the use of cloning of larger mammals such as humans. What makes cloning of humans, so controversial that we would put a ban on cloning humans? Let’s say that you are on the waiting list for a new kidney, but you have a rare genetic makeup. The doctors tell you that it…

Reproductive cloning of humans would lead to an identity crisis in cloned individuals. Alice Cooper’s song, “Clones (We’re All),” portrays the feelings of a person who realizes he is a clone and wishes he was a unique individual. The lyrics, “I’m all alone, so are we all. We’re all clones” show the anguish that the narrator suffers from as a clone (Alice). He portrays a world in which everyone is a clone of each other. No one is unique, and that causes an existential crisis in the narrator. He…

Dorset ewe from which scientists took cells (Aldridge). While it’d be of interest to jump the gun to one of the biggest steps in genetics, cloning could draw its history all the way back to 1885 and is even a basis of the critically acclaimed novel by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. Although a great number of people think of cloning as…

Cloning: Benefits, Harms, and Misconceptions For decades scientists have pondered over the idea of somatic cell nuclear transfer, otherwise known as cloning. In 1996, their ideas became tangible with the creation of Dolly the sheep, the first organism to ever be conceived through nuclear cell transfer. Today, scientists are closer than ever to clone human cells successfully. Although there is excitement over this potential scientific breakthrough, there are fearful and apprehensive reactions as…

Cloning Benefits and Moral Concerns “Cloning describes a number of different processes that can be used to produce genetically identical copies of a biological entity” (United States Natl. Human Genome Research Inst.). Scientists have cloned many biological things even animals in the pursuit of discovering benefits. Along the way, there have been those that have raised concerns about morality and ethics in cloning. Although cloning has many benefits, it’s still surrounded by moral concerns.…

“Banning human cloning sends the regrettable message that politics and public pressure triumph over logic and the law” (Foley). Cloning has been a debatable topic in politics for over a decade. Supreme Courts, politicians, and legislators discuss the ethics of cloning and have mostly come to a conclusion that it is unethical. Since experimentation on the embryos is claimed to be murdering a fetus, cloning has not been allowed the potential it can fulfill. This shows that politics and public…