... organism by asexual methods. The first formal cloning experiments took place in 1952 at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philidelphia. Drs. Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King were the first to clone frogs, by transferring the nucleus of one cell into a different cell. The experiment resulted in a tadpole, which was identical to the donor cell. The second successful attempt in the field of cloning was ... made by English biologist J.B. Gurdon. He used the basic concepts originated by the Briggs and King, but he applied them differently to ... injected them into enucleated eggs, which cr...

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... each individual. By undermining this distinction between people and their uniqueness, we are actually disregarding our differential esteem for human life. The possibility of widespread acceptance of human cloning could lead our society to regard all people as being virtually replaceable or interchangeable. In ... of any intrinsic worth and pave the way for other uses of the cloned person, which might violate their rights further. Regardless of the benefits this does not seem like an option to me. Already, scientists have created headless mice and frogs, and professor Lee Silver of Murd...

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