People that are for cloning talk about how we could possibly bring back historical figures by cloning their DNA. ... For example, if we cloned Babe Ruth, it's not likely the clone would be the best baseball player ever. ... Well if we did clone this historical figure, do you imagine how the media and society would scrutinize and dissect this clone? ... Doctors could clone the person needing the transplant and use the clone's marrow. ... If the couple turns to cloning instead, one parent could just clone himself or herself and the problem no longer exists. ...

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What Is Cloning There are three types of cloning that exist, reproductive cloning, DNA cloning, and therapeutic cloning. ... Reproductive cloning is how animals are cloned today. ... History of Cloning For many years cloning techniques have existed. ... (Gurdon) Issues of cloning There are many issues with-in cloning. ... Cloning may be our future. ...

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Cloning Cloning used to be seen as impossible, but today scientists believe they have the knowledge to clone a human being. ... Should scientists be able to use stem cells to clone a human or should the Christian people get their way and human cloning be banned? ... There are still some questions they are asking themselves; such as, why do clones have a shorter lifespan than non-clones, and can stem cells be use to clone only certain human body organs. ... This was the first cloning of a common domestic pet, and they were successful; however, other attempts cloning mice have not been so ...

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For those of you who think cloning is terrible and should never be done you have most likely cloned something before. ... This is called natural cloning. ... Cloning food will be the wave of the future. ... Making clones would be tampering with God's plan. ... The only way to be perfect is through cloning and cloning does not go along with God's plan. ...

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The goal of embryonic cloning is to change this cycle. ... There is wide debate on the ethics involved in cloning. ... Embryo cloning should be seen as a threat to our principles and our ideals. ... Cloning is no easy task, the successful cloning of the first animal - a lamb named Dolly - was the result of 277 cloning attempts (Independent, author not stated). ... But what is so important about cloning farm animals? ...

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Human Cloning Causes More Good Than Harm The idea of human cloning has been in science fiction movies for decades. ... The process of human cloning is very difficult. ... When human cloning does come to existence there are many scenarios where the use of human cloning could be helpful. ... Another form of human cloning is therapeutic cloning which is the process by which a persons DNA is used to grow and embryonic clone ("Bosonor") Therapeutic cloning is helpful in which they can grow replacements organs such as hearts, livers and skin. ... (Cloning Fact Sheet.) ...

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What is cloning? ... I will discuss the background information about cloning, why we should clone, why we should not clone, and then my thoughts on the subject at hand. ... Another benefit that may come from cloning is the prospect of cloning human organs perfectly matched to their recipients. ... On the other side of the debate, those who advocate the ban on cloning argue that cloning is immoral and against God's will. ... Even though cloning initially seems unnatural, one can decide themselves if they think cloning is right or wrong. ...

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The Advantages of Cloning Cloning is when you take one thing and make an exact replica of it. Is cloning right or wrong? ... Next, some people may argue that cloning is unnatural, but cloning is very much natural. Cloning is natural because some organisms in nature only reproduce using cloning. ... Their wishes could come true with cloning. ...

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A possibility for human cloning that has been proposed is that of the embryos that were cloned and not implanted would be frozen for use in a catalog. ... One could clone their embryo and test one of the clones for a genetic disease. ... Is Human cloning playing God? ... Would you be willing to have a cloned child? ... Does "Brave New World" give an accurate vision for cloning? ...

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Since the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997 (although not a complete success) scientists were given extra motivation to develop the cloning phenomenon beyond the public's expectation and into an entirely new level, this new phenomenon is known as therapeutic cloning. The "cloning debate" has now been joined by the "stem cell debate," and it is imperative that people appreciate the difference between Adult DNA Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning. ... Therapeutic cloning: This starts with the same procedure as is used in adult DNA cloning, although the resultant embryo is only allowed to gr...

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The basic priciple that allows whole animal cloning to take place would be the cell theory principle that states that "cells can only arise only by division from a preexisting cell" (Karp, 2003). The first evidence of early cloning come from the 1960's, a scientist named John Gurdon who transplanted the nucleus of a specialized cell from one of the adult frogs and fertilized the nucleus in an egg of another frog. ... The process of nuclear transfer has since then improved somewhat and developed into the "Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT)" or therapeutic cloning which involves the remo...

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The possibility of cloning came from Scottish scientists at Roslin Institute when they cloned a sheep "Dolly " in 1997. "Dolly " was cloned from an adult sheep mammary gland. ... The public was shocked upon the idea of cloning. ... Human cloning most certainly should be legal. ... Then they take the cloned embryo and implant it into a surrogate mother until she comes to term and delivers the cloned baby. ...

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By now, everyone has heard about Dolly the sheep that was successfully cloned as an adult from somatic cells. ... First and foremost, infertility could be effectively combatted through the process of cloning. ... This number could be largely reduced worldwide through the process of Therapeutic Cloning. ... Bone marrow could be cloned and used to treat children and adults suffering from leukemia. ... With all the medical advancements and breakthroughs in the field of cloning, having an entire person cloned is inevitable, and the many strong arguments in support of human cloning are really just...

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Human Cloning and Stem-Cell Research: The Moral and Political Battle In the past several years, cloning has been a rising concern on the minds of the medical and bioethics community. In February of 1997, the world learned of the first successful cloning of a mammal, a sheep named Dolly. Since then, the idea of cloning as a result of cloning to produce children or as a result of cloning for biomedical research has become an all too real possibility. ... In this way the bill attempts to distinguish between "reproductive" cloning and "research cloning." ... Any embryo that is cloned shoul...

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The first of which is reproductive cloning. Reproductive cloning generates an exact replica of an organism that provided the cell nucleus for cloning (Yang, 2006, p.63). ... The second type of cloning that Yang references in his article was called therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic cloning differs from reproductive cloning because a complete organism is not duplicated from the donor cell. Yang (2006) describes that with therapeutic cloning particular cell types can be cloned to be used for medical research. ...

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