Numerous uncertainties are hanging over the biotechnology of human cloning which has prompted medical ethicists and religious organizations to ask questions that bordered on its ethical considerations. In humans, issues arise both in clinical laboratory settings hence, morality manipulating genes is foremost issue among scientists scholars. Therefore, this paper evaluated technology using perso...

Many countries are still grappling with the issue of therapeutic cloning of human cells as the UN tackles this issue alongside reproductive cloning, but in the UK a new programme looking at the causes of motor neuron disease has recently been sanctioned. Michael Gross reports.

Animal studies on reproductive cloning show a high incidence of fetal disorders and spontaneous abortions, and malformation and death among newborns. There is no reason to suppose that the outcome would be different in humans,” says May. The birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996, cloned from a cell from the mammary gland of another sheep, raised hopes of growing heart or nervous tissue to treat coro...

Embryos formed by somatic cell nuclear transfer to enucleated oocytes (cloning) have given rise to viable offspring in several mammalian species. The possibility of future application of this technique to human assisted reproduction (reproductive cloning) has been widely debated. On this background there is current discussion of the potential for a cloning-derived technique, which aims at synga...

Shortly after Dr. Ian Wilmut made international news in 1997 by announcing the successful cloning of an adult sheep, Chicago physicist Dr. Richard Seed made an announcement of his own that caused similar alarm. At a law school symposium on reproduction, the Harvard-educated physicist announced plans to perfect cloning procedures and then to open a human cloning clinic for infertile couples. At ...

Human cloning and in vitro fertilisation may seem very different procedures; certainly, they are regarded very differently by many people at the present time. IVF is seen as a mainstream procedure raising few ethical problems, while cloning, or ‘reproductive’ cloning, is widely regarded as beyond the moral pale. In this paper, I argue that the two procedures have more in common than might at fi...

Recent advances in the field of cloning and stem cell research have introduced new hope for treatment of serious diseases. But this promise has been accompanied by enormous questions. Currently, cloning is a matter of public discussion. It is rare that a field of science causes debate and challenge not only among scientists but also among ethicists, religious scholars, governments, and politici...

Many new reproductive methods such as artificial insemination, in vitro fertilisation, freezing of human embryos, and surrogate motherhood were at first widely condemned but are now seen in Western society as not just ethically and morally acceptable, but beneficial in that they allow otherwise infertile couples to have children. The idea of human cloning was also quickly condemned but debate i...

The ethical implications of human clones have been much alluded to, but have seldom been examined with any rigour. This paper examines the possible uses and abuses of human cloning and draws out the principal ethical dimensions, both of what might be done and its meaning. The paper examines some of the major public and official responses to cloning by authorities such as President Clinton, the ...