The Ethics Of Somatic Cell Cloning
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The idea that humans might someday be cloned - created from a single somatic cell without sexual reproduction - became closer to reality on February 23, 1997. On that date, The Observer broke the news that Ian Wilmut, a Scottish scientist, and his colleagues at the Rosilin Institute were about to ....
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.... society has failed to do so.
The Medical Benefits:
Somatic cell cloning has many potential benefits:
1. Somatic cell cloning provides a way for completely sterile individuals, (those not capable of reproducing) to reproduce.
2. Somatic cell cloning may provide valuable basic research and spin off technologies related to reproduction and development.
3. Cloning technologies could enable the development of donor organs that will not be rejected by the transplant patient.
The benefits of t ....
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