Cloning
How would you feel if you saw two of
everything? Two cows? Two dogs?
Two cats? And the pairs looked
identical. Not naturally, such as twins,
but just to have two of the exact same person or animal. If you, your parent, your sibling, relative,
or even a stranger gets very sick there will be a cure. The cure will be either a clone so that the
person can continue to live or a part of their body that could be fixed. There will be hope for sick people or even
animals to get healthy.
History
Cloning has been occurring since the early
1900s. Starting with Hans Spemann, he
was considered to be the first to experiment with animals in the 1920s.* Then Dr. Willesden, in 1984, transferred the
nuclei from the embryo of sheep to produce clones.*1 Finally, the first
success of an animal cloning was the birth of Dolly the lamb cloned from an
adult sheep in 1997.* With
the birth of Dolly, it opened the perspective of a new biomedical world,
fraught with consequences for cloning.* To
produce Dolly “they took a mammary cell from sheep and put it into egg and
developed it into an embryo which was then transplanted in the recipient Ewe,
acting as a surrogate mother.”*
While watching this video, think about how this
would impact how cloning could evolve in the future.
As the video describes, there is a company in
South Korea that clones dogs. This
woman, Danielle, was completely devastated by her dog passing so she was
willing to spend the $100 thousand to get her dog cloned. But, due to the fact that she was doing this
for the show TLC she got a half off deal.
She declared, “I would have paid the full $100 thousand.” After watching this video, I believe that this
could potentially start the process of human cloning.
*Wadhawan,
M., & Singh, D. (2009). Cloning: An overview of issues, policies &
legislation. Journal Of Punjab Academy Of
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 9(1), 16-20.
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