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- Human Cloning - Center for Genetics and Society
Human reproductive cloning – producing a genetic copy of an existing person using somatic cell nuclear transfer – has never been done Many scientists believe that it can never be safe In opinion polls, , overwhelming majorities consistently reject its use The U S has no federal law on human reproductive cloning, but several states, dozens of countries, and international agreements
- Reproductive Cloning Basic Science - Center for Genetics and Society
Reproductive cloning means creating a genetic duplicate of an existing organism A human clone would be a genetic duplicate of an existing person Genes are strings of chemicals that help create the proteins that make up your body Genes are found in long coiled chains called chromosomes They are located in the nuclei of the cells in your body
- Reproductive Cloning Arguments Pro and Con
If you cloned yourself, the resulting child would be neither your son or daughter nor your twin brother or sister, but a new category of human being: your clone The great majority of people have an intuitive sense that human beings should not be cloned Arguments offered for and against reproductive cloning are given below
- The Clone Named Dolly | Center for Genetics and Society
tells the story of Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult mammal The Scottish scientists who created her recall the painstaking process of trying to get the experiment to work After hundreds of tries, they successfully took a cell from an adult sheep, fused it to another sheep’s unfertilized egg and implanted the resulting embryo in a surrogate mother But Dolly’s birth, and the
- We’re Getting Closer to Cloning Humans. Here’s What’s Stopping Us.
about a man (with a self-driving car, of course) whose clone takes over his life Yes, over the past 15 years or so, genetics research has gotten so advanced that, from a scientific perspective, we’re actually pretty darn close to being able to create human clones
- Reproductive Cloning Frequently Asked Questions
A "right to clone" would be a dangerous distortion of reproductive choice Q: Why should we care about human reproductive cloning if it is not expected to be used widely? A: Any effort to create a cloned human being would constitute an unacceptable form of human experimentation
- Born This Week: Dolly the Sheep - Center for Genetics and Society
A Star is Born On July 5, 1996, the most famous individual sheep in history was born: Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell Scientists had cloned frogs previously, but many considered using an adult mammalian cell to produce a new creature with the same genome to be impossible There was no public notice on the day of Dolly’s birth; the announcement was made on February 24, 1997
- Research Cloning Arguments Pro and Con
Reasons for Concern about Research Cloning 1 Perfection of techniques to create clonal human embryos would make it more difficult to prevent the births of human clones If clonal embryos free of reprogramming errors can be created, establishing pregnancies is likely to be a trivial procedure Without a system of strict public oversight and control, some of the clonal embryos created in
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