Therapeutic Cloning and Reproductive Cloning Essay

This week’s articles, Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands by Karen-Sue Taussig and Bodies, Commodities, & Biotechnologies by Leslie Sharp illustrate the “tie between genetics and identity” (Taussig 2004: 309). It is in human nature to believe that we all have a personality, thoughts, and emotions that make us human. Anything that is not of human origin is considered to be a tool for dehumanization. That is why this idea of xenotransplants and biotechnologies does…

Moreover, recent evidence has suggested that transplantation of cells and tissues may be therapeutic for certain diseases such as neurodegenerative disorders and diabetes, where, again human materials are not usually available. Although the potential benefits are substantial, the use of xenotransplantation raises concerns regarding the potential…

Cloning has started around the 1950’s and is still currently going on today. Human cloning of any kind should be banned; the thought that humans have the resources to create and produce life is disturbing; scientists imitating creation is beyond me and unethical. “cloning for the replication of human individuals is ethically unacceptable and contrary to human dignity and integrity” ( Birnbacher 2005). Cloning can also lead to lead to abnormal development, diseases, and short life span”.…

1. After reading Case 1: Hacking Living Cells for a Good Cause, respond to the following question: Assume that this research has taken place. What ethical limitations do you see in these research applications? There are a few ethical and moral problems with the hack living cell research that was proposed. One thing I noticed that will be a limitation is the risks and moral conflict involved in a changing human’s been cell to operate in a way that the researchers have programmed the cell to be.…

Kass brings up a few interesting topics in his article Preventing a Brave New World, but his main point is mostly on the negatives of the development of cloning. Kass’s argument is that if we develop cloning, we’ll develop desensitization towards the matter and before we know it, cloning will embed its way into the mainstream of human society. At first glance, most people might say “That’s ridiculous and too outrageous, it’ll never happen!”; however that’s what most people probably said when…

Cloning has been seen in many movies involving mad scientist taking a single strand of hair and copying a whole new person. Scientist are now making this idea into a reality, but is cloning really worth it? Cloning is replicating a DNA to make an identical copy of an organism. Cloning can be seen as beneficial to the future by creating a new organ to those in need or be a total disaster because of the baggage it brings like overpopulating the world or malpractice. The first demonstration of…

The author provides the reason why scientists think that the woolly mammoth should be cloned because some scientists think that cloning a mammoth is either a good/bad idea. They found a full-body example of a mammoth "embedded in ice on a remote island" in 2013 (Grant). Some scientists think that because the ice kept the body and blood so well preserved, the might be able to clone the animal. The author provides these reasons to tell his/her audience that some scientists think that having a…

Many people think cloning is wrong based off of moral decisions. Cloning children would show people that they can now be designed according to the parent’s wishes. Critics fear that children created through somatic cell transfer would have unfair expectations of having the talents or achievements of whoever provided the DNA. The child would have to live up to those expectations. “Imagine discovering that you are the clone of a child your parents lost, and you live your life always being compared…

Have you ever wonder the dangers of having another on of yourself? “Would you be one-of-a-kind?”(Eyes of Nye) No, you would not be one-of-a-kind anymore. Why? Well, because the clone would have the same DNA as you, and would even look the same. Cloning research should not continue because it can be harmful, and it makes you and I no longer special in our own ways/one-of-a-kind. Meanwhile, if you have a twin, it’s totally different from having a clone. You’re still one-of-a-kind. Why is it…

Most people have probably been told that they look exactly like someone else. However, there are over 7.4 billion people in the world, so there is an extremely small chance that someone looks exactly like you. The German term for “double goer,” a doppelganger is someone who looks exactly like you, and they don’t always have a positive influence on their counterpart. Though the topic of doppelgangers has been debated for many years, people haven’t exactly found out the chances of finding your…