see we try to clone cats and then they end up glowing in the dark!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071212/sc_afp/healthscienceskoreacloning
2007-12-13 01:57:00 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jessica Alba should be cloned. There should be one in every household.
FACT.
2007-12-13 02:00:04 · answer #1 · answered by Deke 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The genetic knowledge gained is tremendous. Scientists learn more and more about DNA as they work towards making clones. Science is learning a lot about genes and which ones do what. There are many diseases and conditions that can be eliminated if scientists had a better understanding of the genes that caused these diseases and conditions. New medicines could be developed that do not target the bacteria directly but instead affects the genes of the patient so the patient's natural defenses can ward off the bacteria.
I think that cloning will lead us to be able to do things like grow new organs in a lab. Imagine the people who die every year while waiting on a new heart or liver. Imagine the rare blood types that are next to impossible to keep in stock that could be produced in a laboratory process. Processes like that can be learned from the work done in cloning.
2007-12-13 02:04:53 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why not?
Morals and ethics are important but there is so much evil in the world that the tinkering of a few scientists could never ammount to much. Also a lot of good could potentially come from it.
Say for instance a human was crossed with a chimpanzee and the result was a chimpanzee with a human mind.
One can almost imagine the distress that that person would feel.
And then we kill him.
As I write about six hundred people per month are being killed in iraq. And the war rages in Afganistan and who knows, Kosovo next.
Surely against this sort of context a few Frankenstein experiments are next to insignificant.
2007-12-13 02:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. I want to be able to eventually go to a clinic and get failing organs cloned and replaced if necessary.
Cloning is a tremendous power that should be fully utilized for the good of humankind, etc. Plus, cloning will hopefully put an end to the black market on body parts, where people in 3rd world nations literally sell parts of themselves to organ harvesters who then turn around and sell them to needy recipients. In addition, cloning organs allows you to create a genetically identical replacement, so the problem of tissue rejection is eliminated.
2007-12-13 02:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, science does play with things a bit too much. But where do we draw the line with science? There are so many wonderful possibilites. Although I don't believe we should mess with nature, I also have an illness, and if someone could clone me a healthy body, I'd be happy. So, it has it's good and bad points... and I could argue both sides forever. I'm on the fence with that one.
2007-12-13 02:12:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is a question that needs to be narrowed down a bit to be answered. It depends on a few things:
what are we cloning
what are we cloning them for
we clone insulin for diabetic people that need it. We clone microorganisms that can help us not die.
but when it comes to cloning animals. for pets it's up to the owner, but for produce (i'm a vegetarian) it's very wrong. I do not think that people should be cloned at all. But again, it's a matter of opinion
2007-12-13 02:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by noel_gallagher 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I worry when I read that the scientist is not all that honest.
The government banned Hwang from research using human eggs after his claims that he created the first human stem cells through cloning were ruled last year to be bogus.
Hwang is standing trial on charges of fraud and embezzlement.
I don't worry about cloning..nature does it..twins..triplets..It is nothing new.
2007-12-13 02:01:22 · answer #7 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The general public don't understand cloning and victimising it is something of a zeitgeist.
I spent my whole PhD cloning in E. coli and the reasons were rather mundane.
There is nothing wrong with cloning especially when it can help save a life!
2007-12-13 02:00:32 · answer #8 · answered by heidavey 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
the mice from last year glowed too. and if all the clones glow then you could tell which is real by turning off the light.
2007-12-13 01:59:31 · answer #9 · answered by blase' blahhh 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Of course we should. There is no conceivable harm that can come from it, yet there are unimaginable potential benefits.
Note that the 'glowing cats' were intended to glow. That was not a side effect.
2007-12-13 02:06:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
probably not. It might be neat if we could have the nitrogen fixing bacteria growing on the roots of corn and wheat, but other than that, this genetic engineering thing is a hazard.
2007-12-13 02:00:45 · answer #11 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋