Even though the government should control cloning regulations, government panels are poor substitutes for the “good sense and open communications of scientists working towards the same goal. What possible expertise does a congressman or a senator have?…They are, for the most part, motivated to reflect the interests of the strongest contributors among the groups they represent. And the presidency is also subject to the pressures of media sensationalism, special interest groups, and polls.” (Hull, 2).

Certain enzymes can be mass-produced to be provided as medicine. “The most immediate benefit is likely to be the faster, more efficient production of therapeutic human proteins in the milk of transgenic4 farm animal species. These drug products of biotechnology have already aided persons with blood deficiencies and serious infections among other conditions.” (McCuen, 89). At the Genzyme Transgenic, they are developing products for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, several forms of cancer, diabetes, hereditary diseases, and others. They are doing phases II clinical trials with a transgenic form of human protein that helps prevent harmful blood clotting in many serious medical conditions. They make the protein by linking two kinds of genes together and injecting it into a one-cell animal embryo.5 Once the transgenic animal is born, it’s offspring will also have the gene for the protein. This protein can then be purified away for the production of a pharmaceutical product. “There are several important benefits to transgenic production. For some very complex proteins, transgenic technology presents the only technical feasible way in which they can be manufacture. In addition milk offers a safer alternative for products currently derived from sources such as pooled human plasma, which necessarily carry some risk of transmitting infectious human diseases.” There are also economical advantages to transgenic technology. Their production facility can make products for less money and unit costs than the $100 million facilities often necessary to produce the same proteins using ‘conventional’ technology. (McCuen, 110).

4 Those containing genes from a species other than their own.

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