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Human cloning - how to do it - Videos
Human cloning: who is cloning humans, how, why and who is (not) paying
How human clones are being made - for medical research. Arguments for and against human cloning research. Why investors are moving away from human cloning and why human cloning now looks a last-century way to fight disease. Why some people want to clone themselves or even to clone the dead (and not just cloning pets).
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Human cloning is quite simple - a scientist
even did it with a cow's egg, but he destroyed the embryo
before implantation. However huge risks of mutation with
human cloning. See human cloning pictures below.
In human cloning the aim is for two cells to fuse
to become one. The egg gains a full set of genes from the
adult and thinks it has been fertilised. It begins to divide
to become an identical twin (clone) of the adult. As with
Dolly the sheep. However, the cloned baby could have genes
that are as old as the older cloned twin.
I met a British scientist who was researching human
cloning. He wanted to clone an embryo, implant it in the womb
and cull it for spares for the older twin. Actually this
is THE ONLY way that so-called therapeutic cloning could produce
organs and organised tissues rather than just collections of cells
in a lab - unless you take organs after birth.
The human cloning argument could go like this:
child is dying, use cells and a human egg to clone child.
Implant clone into mother in poor nation - pay her $10,000.
Take baby from her at birth. Remove tissues needed after
birth - say a kidney at the age of two - and offer cloned child
for adoption. Child remains healthy on one kidney, older
twin life is saved. Childless couple get a baby. Poor
mother gets an income. But I don't want to live in a world
like that. And as I say, human cloning poses huge
emotional and phyical risks for the younger child.
"The potential of gene technology is beyond
the comprehension of most people today" - Dr Patrick Dixon
- Wall Street Journal (E)
Recent Human Cloning Video / Articles by Dr Patrick Dixon --- 10 million visitors - many on cloning
