So far, no scientist has been able to specifically turn any adult stem cell population into good populations of motor-neuron cells. Remember that ALS patients tend to die within four years. Opponents of therapeutic cloning need to remember that we do not have time to waste.
believes like most Americans that human cloning is deeply concerning, and he strongly supports legislation banning human cloning.
You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.
I think a lot of the guilt in the play is what the father feels because of the failure with his first son. He uses cloning in an attempt to start over again.
The next step in the cloning process involves searching for cells in the bones and tendons of preserved specimens, ... If none are found, then we will try to extract DNA from those specimens and use 'Jurassic Park technology'.
Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by cloning would radically alter the very definition of what a human being is.
Cloning is at a commercially viable place now.
Cloning an animal isn't easy and I don't want to minimize that accomplishment. But the biggest breakthroughs actually came in figuring out how to make the in vitro manipulation successful.
To win public support and government funding, advocates for human cloning and ESC (embryonic stem cell) research have long made hyped claims and exaggerated promises to legislators and the public.
[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.