In order to utilize these stem cells, a skin cell (or any cell for that matter, seeing as how every cell in our body carries genetic material) is injected into a woman's egg, and from that egg, an embryo is created (Donn). It is these embryonic stem cells that hold so much potential for our future. ... The cells, coming from more than 3,200 mammals and 355 species and subspecies, are all being held in frozen vaults to later have the DNA extracted from those cells and transferred to neutral eggs that have had their genetic DNA removed (Spotts). These eggs have been injected with the D...

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An unfertilized egg is then taken out of an adult ewe, and the eggs nucleus, along with its DNA, is sucked out. Thus leaving an empty egg cell that still has the cellular machinery to produce an embryo. The empty egg and the culture of the starved cells are then placed next to each other. An electronic pulse causes the egg and cells to fuse together, and a second pulse is given to start the cell division. ... Although scientists understand most of the cloning processes, how and why the DNA changes once inside the egg remains a mystery. ...

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In order to clone, a cell from an adult mammal is used to grow another, genetically identical clone. The nucleus of the removed cell is removed, and transferred into an egg from which the DNA has been removed. ... An alternative method is to immerse eggs in spermatozoa before bokanovskification makes the resulting embryos into hundreds of identical cloned Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. ... Cell structures called telomeres gradually shorten as cells divide and age. ... The premature aging of clones may be linked to the fact that the cells taken from animals have already aged, and when cloned e...

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Well I will let you in on a secret, cloning DNA will not produce an identical person. ... The process of cloning whole organs from a single human cell is feasible. ... Approximately one in six couples have difficulties conceiving, thus cloning would be the ideal solution to a great portion of the world's population; Human embryonic stem cells that are cloned can be utilized to cure fatal diseases, assist in discovering cures, or to save a near-extinct species. ... "Is a microscopic cleaving egg, four days after fertilization, really more important that curing your father's Alzhe...

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