Cloning
A clone is an identical copy of a plant or animal, produced from the genetic material of a single organism. In 1997 British scientists created a sheep named Dolly, the first successful clone of an adult mammal. The question of whether human cloning should be allowed, and under what conditions, raises a vast number of challenging scientific, legal, and ethical issues—including what it means to be human.
Human Cloning
Dolly received worldwide attention, partly as a marvel of science and partly as a worrisome sign of what might lie ahead. If scientists could clone an adult sheep, they could probably clone a human. This prospect was so unsettling that Great Britain and several other nations outlawed human cloning,…>> (read more)
Cloning Points of View
4 Cloned Embryos Are No More than Cells
5 Therapeutic Cloning Is Urgently Needed
6 Therapeutic Cloning Would Lead to Human Reproductive Cloning
7 Cloning Dogs May Lead to Cures for Human Diseases
8 Animal Cloning Paves the Way to Human Cloning
9 Religious Views of Cloning Do Not Agree
10 Ethicists Debate the Cloning of Pets
11 Preface to Cloning: Contemporary Issues Companion
12 Preface to Cloning: Contemporary Issues Companion
13 Common Beliefs About Human Cloning Are Myths
14 Human Reproductive Cloning Should Be Banned, but Therapeutic Cloning Should Be Allowed
15 Ban on Human Cloning Would Be Unconstitutional
16 Negative Attitudes Toward Human Clones Would Be Discrimination
17 Cloning Humans Is Not Yet Safe
18 Human Clones Would Be Less Alike than Identical Twins
19 Human Cloning Would Lead to a Loss of Empathy
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Cloning in the News
Byline: Bernadette Tansey; Chronicle Staff Writer
A proposal for mandatory labeling of all food from cloned animals passed its first test in the California Legislature Wednesday when…>> (read more)
Move over, Stephen King. A South Korean company is bringing pets back from the dead for real. Well, kind of. RNL Bio has taken the first-ever order for the…>> (read more)
Byline: Bernadette Tansey; Chronicle Staff Writer
Less than a dozen years after Dolly the sheep became the world's first cloned mammal, grocers and restaurateurs are digesting the…>> (read more)
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