What human gene that has been cloned?

Question

Why would scientists want to do it? What diseases can be helped or cured by cloning?

Answer 1

Many many many human genes have been cloned and can help find cures for many many diseases. Cloning does not necessarily mean cloning whole organisms.

One example is that clones of the human protein superoxide dismutase 1 are being studied to help find the mechanism for ALS (aka Lou Gehrig's disease).

Genes for insulin are inserted into bacteria in order to mass produce insulin for diabetics.

Really, gene cloning is much more common and less sci-fi than you would think.

Answer 2

The entire human genome has been mapped, therefore any gene has the ability to be cloned fairly easily. There are about 10,000 genes in the human genome, however, there are roughly 30,000 protiens in the human proteome.

Your question is complicated in the sense that I would have to explain gene splicing and several other processes, so I'll try and speak in general terms. If there is a bad, or defective gene in a simple organism, like yeast, we are able to make a special type of "drug" called a plasmid that can go into the yeast and take out the bad gene, or this plasmid can alternatively introduce a good gene into the yeast. This is much harder to do in a complex organism such as the humans, but the potential to do in humans what we do in yeast exists. So to answer your question directly, every disease potentially can be helped or cured by gene therapy and gene therapy is a product of cloning the human genome.

Answer 3

they all have. There was the genome project that was completed earlier this decade which has the DNA for all of our estimated 30,000 genes. But an example of a cloned human gene is the insulin gene. Scientist can make better insulin and maybe one day can help diabetics manage their disease better.

Answer 4

idk
but i saw in a book about a cloned sheep

Answer 5

I TOTALLY agree with you!!!! I read about this dog thata was cloned, and he only lived half as long as the original dog.

Answer 6

The stem cell????? I reely don't know.