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National Institute Of Health Moral And Ethical
1,756 wordsHuman Cloning Outline Introduction Cloning techniques Cell mass division Somatic cell transferring (Nuclear substitution) Moral and ethical issues concerning human cloning Reasons to clone Objections Conclusion References Introduction In 1997 a Scottish researcher, Ian Wilmut had successfully cloned an adult sheep. The initial public and professional response to the announcement of the new technique was one of concern. In some cases, these responses were mistaken of how this new technology may r...
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Cystic Fibrosis Enucleated Egg
2,092 wordsThe first thing that must be cleared up is what is cloning, and what is a clone. A clone is an organism derived asexually from a single individual by cutting, bulbs, tubers, fission or parthenogenesis reproduction. Parthenogenesis reproduction is the development of an organism from an unfertilized ovum, seed or a spore. Hence, cloning, biologically speaking, is any process in which production of a clone is successful. Thus, the biological term cloning is the production of genetically identical d...
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Clone Humans Gene Therapy
1,461 wordsAt the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dr. Keith Campbell, director of embryology at PPL therapeutics in Roslin, and his colleague Dr. Ian Wilmut worked together on a project to clone a sheep, Dolly, from adult cells. On February 22, 1997, they finally succeeded. Dolly was the only lamb born from 277 fusions of oocytes with udder cells. Wilmut says there were so many failures because it is difficult to ensure that the empty oocytes and the donor cell are at the same stage of the cell di...
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