Scientists are also deeply concerned about cloning technology. Three years ago, many of you heard about Dolly, the first cloned animal. Of course cloning a sheep led to an immediate discussion about cloning human beings. The first action by the industry, within the days of the announcement of the creation of Dolly, was to declare a voluntary moratorium on cloning human beings. ... We still believe it is not right to attempt to clone a human because it is inherently unsafe. ...

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Biotechnology Continuing through the twenty-first century, technology is expanding and to all aspects of life for the purpose of fixing worldwide problems to making our life's much easier. In the past few years, a new branch of technology has opened up, called Biotechnology. Biotechnology combine...

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In 1997 a sheep was cloned from a single adult cell through biotechnology (Cooley, 2014). ... Green biotechnology has found a way to clone plants with the specific gene that has genetically altered to keep plants with that same gene (Brown 2013). ... Then these cells are taken and used to clone that plant in order make the group of plants more drug resistant. ...

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Human cloning is a type of genetic engineering, but is not the same as true genetic manipulation. In human cloning, the aim is to duplicate the genes of an existing person so that an identical set is inside a human egg. The result is intended to be a cloned twin, perhaps of a dead child. ...

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For example, one of the biggest threats of possible negative use is that of human cloning. ... Some fear that the research for stem cells are going to use aborted fetuses, that embryos will be manufactured for profit, or we will start cloning humans. ...

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In 2001, President Bush announced that he would allow federal funding for research on some existing embryonic stem cells, but strongly opposes human cloning, and the extraction of stem cells for scientific research. ...

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Biotechnology has dramatically changed modern society and will continue to as technology becomes more advanced. The idea of genetically modified plants and food has stirred both questions and concerns from both sides of the issue. However biotechnology can be responsible for many prominent advances ...

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