Cloning has become a new science that is more realistic today than it would have been 20 years ago. Cloning occurs when the production of identical cells or organisms comes from a single individual. There are two different ways to perform cloning, which will be explained later. Cloning raises many questions based on “can we do it?” and “should we do this?” There were a lot of problems with people not knowing whether or not to approve of the idea of cloning. Since this cloning entered our society, technological and ethical questions have arisen. Most people have only seen and heard about cloning in scary or science fiction movies, but in today's technological world this is possible. "There's a lot of talk about it in the news. The public has been bombarded with newspaper articles, magazine articles, books, television shows, movies and even cartoons," writes Robert McKinnell, author of Cloning: A Biologist Report.A Way to Clone it is by dividing an embryo in two, which then creates new people from that embryo. Another way to clone is to clone a human! This means taking human cells from a living human and cloning them in the same way as mentioned above embryo and dividing in half. In 1993, at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington DC, the first embryos were divided to try to create human cloning. Dr. Jerry Hall was responsible for testing the possibility of cloning a human. He quickly realized that cloning could not be done today, but would be possible in the future. Shannon Brownlee of US News & World Report writes: "Hall and other scientists divide individual human embryos into identical copies, a technology that opens a Pandora's box of ethical questions... half the paper... the dream is that can provide scientists with more information on human development, on the genetic modification of embryos and on the search for new transplant technologies. Research on cloning will still remain active, even if there are disputes. All you can do is inform yourself about the topic and decide which side of the fence he wants to be on. References: Shannon Brownlee (10-31-93) Retrieved March 27, 2009, from http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/931108/archive_016052. htm.McCormick, Richard A. (1994). Separation of blastomeres: some concerns. .Barbara Enrenreich (11/22/93) The economics of cloning. Retrieved March 28, 2009, from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979642,00.html.
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