The idea of the possibility of cloning has long interested scientists from all over the world. The ability to create another life without the need to reproduce, simply a petri dish and some cells, is something that has been attempted to be done for decades. There are endless possibilities of the uses that cloning could bring, and it excites many and equally terrifies others. In was in 1997 when there was a big breakthrough of cloning occurred: the “birth” of Dolly the ewe. Dolly was cloned from an adult sheep in Scotland. Dolly was the beginning of the experimentation of cloning full mammals. We now clone many mice and claves all cloned from adult cells that still now fascinate many scientists. However, the idea of cloning and cloning has been done before; however, now that a full mammal that was cloned from an adult cell was successful, it triggered the idea of possibly cloning a full human. There were many experiments done with the idea of cloning and the questioning of the replication process when cells divide; experiments were done as early as 1888. They began with the experimentation on a two-cell amphibian embryo and discovered certain genes that were lost during the replication of the cell. From there the experimentations grew more and more sophisticated and these early nuclear cloning experiments confirmed that “the complete genome is replicated during cell division, at least during early cleavage” (McKinnell, 1999). These experiments were the bases of modern cloning experiments to study the genomic ability of the adult embryonic cells. The studies and experimentation of cloning is being done all over the world: the U.S, England, France, China, and Japan are all in the field of cloning and the possibilities that it ca... ... middle of paper ... ...the use of xenotransplantation cloning will continue to be a field of endless possibilities and possible benefits for the medical world. Works Cited McKinnell, Robert G., and Marie A. Di Berardino. "The Biology of Cloning: History and Rationale."BioScience 49.11 (1999): 875-83. Print Bremier, Michael E. "Xenotransplant News." Transplalnt News (2008): 353-55. 2008. Web. 13 Mar. 2011 Kubota, X. C., and X. Yang. "Cloning of Aged Animals: A Medical Model for Tissue and Organ Regeneration." TMC 11.8 (2001): 313-17. ScienceDirect. Web. 13 Mar. 2011. Hilmert, Laura J. "Cloning Human Organs: Potential Sources and Property Implications." Indiana Law Journal (2001). Web. 13 Mar. 2011 Koh, Chester J., and Anthony Atala. "Therapeutic Cloning Applications for Organ Transplantation."Transplant Immunology 12 (2004). ScienceDirect. Web. 13 Mar. 2011
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Human cloning research has once been the subject of terrifying science-fiction films and novels, science experiments gone wrong, accomplished only by the evil scientists twirling their moustaches. However, ideas presented on page and screen are rarely accurate. The possibility of cloning an exact copy of another human with one already fully developed is almost impossible, but through meticulous research, scientists have discovered the numerous benefits of cloning humans, either with individual cells or an embryo.
"Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry." The President's Council on Bioethics Washington, D.C. N.p., July-Aug. 2002. Web.
In addition to its medicinal benefits, animal cloning could be used to produce tissues or organs for transplants (15). This can be done by culturing "embryonic stem cells," or "primitive cells that appear between ...
"XENOTRANSPLANTATION: The Benefits and Risks of Special Orga Transplantation." BIO. Biotechnology Industry Organization, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2013.
Cloning Cloning is a process that creates exact genetic copies of an existing cell. Cloning is a more general term that describes a number of different processes that can be used to produce genetically identical copies. The process of cloning can happen either naturally, for instance, when identical twins develop, or it can be induced through synthetic conditions in a laboratory. There are three different types of artificial cloning: gene cloning, reproductive cloning, and therapeutic cloning.
Cloning has become a major issue in our modern world, from moral, ethical, and religious concerns, to the problem of financial and government support. Human cloning is one of the most controversial topics, and because of this, many of the new important discoveries and beneficial technologies have been overlooked and ignored. Reproductive cloning technology may offer many new possibilities, including hope for endangered species, resources for human organ transplants, and answers to questions concerning cancer, inherited diseases, and aging. The research that led up to the ability to clone mammals started more than a century ago. From frogs to mice to sheep to humans, reproductive cloning promises many possibilities.
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Besides the fact that there are always risks when being operated on, cloning could make the post procedure much easier. For example, many patients who undergo surgery and receive a heart transplant result in ...
Cloning is another new medical advance that allows for many great possibilites. Exact organ matches for organ transplants could be made through cloning. Animal...
Human cloning is a new biological technology developed at an astonishing rate in past thirty years. The debates about human cloning draw much attention, as its development will affect the entire future of human beings. Cloning technology is just on the starting stage and still has done experiments on animals. Also, this technology has been pushed forward or held back by economic, political, military and moral factors. Human cloning in this essay only represents therapeutic cloning and children reproductive cloning. To be specific, this essay will discuss two benefits of human cloning about therapeutic cloning in disease cure and reproductive cloning in creating new children and two challenges about health risk and social value risk.
Human cloning has been unsuccessful in the past with many lies and fails in experiments. An
The term clone is commonly denoted as a genetically identical organism. In today’s world, cloning is thought to only happen to humans in films or shows, but in the real world, the cloning of animals is something that exists today. Animal Cloning became a relative topic among scientists after the success of the first cloned large mammal, Dolly the sheep, using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer. The success of cloning a large mammal opened up various possibilities that could come from this. The cloning of animals would be beneficial to both animals and humankind because it would have numerous valuable applications that could be used today and in the future.
Cloning is the process of replicating organism’s genes into one or many identical copies of itself. For hundreds of years, genetic scientists have been studying and experimenting with this idea. Cloning is still a new procedure and has a lot of controversies. Some scientists prophesize that cloning will make the world a better place due to the many applications of cloning that would benefit the world. Other scientists are concerned about the long-term effects it may have to spark the question, “is it worth it”. Cloning has been successful in many cases for animals and plants but the idea of cloning humans is something still farfetched for modern technology. In this report I will be covering how cloning started, the process in which