Cloning in the future

Cloning in the future

By: Miles K.

Description

Cloning is when you make an exact copy of something.  In the future, there might be cloning. It might be good or it might be bad.  It might be to make an army or to have extra children. Human culture might be affected if cultures are against re-creating people.  It would help the economy if the clones would be perfectly safe and don't hurt anyone. It would bring lots of money into the economy.

Benefits

www. humancloning.org said...

Human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks.  Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged.  Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialized countries.

There has been a breakthrough with human stem cells.  Embryonic stem cells can be grown to produce organs or tissues to repair or replace damaged ones.  Skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, spinal cord cells for quadriplegics and paraplegics, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys could be produced.  By combining this technology with human cloning technology it may be possible to produce needed tissue for suffering people that will be free of rejection by their immune systems.  Conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart failure, degenerative joint disease, and other problems may be made curable if human cloning and its technology are not banned.

Another part of the article said...

With cloning, infertile couples could have children.  Despite getting a fair amount of publicity in the news current treatments for infertility, in terms of percentages, are not very successful.  One estimate is that current infertility treatments are less than 10 percent successful.  Couples go through physically and emotionally painful procedures for a small chance of having children.  Many couples run out of time and money without successfully having children.  Human cloning could make it possible for many more infertile couples to have children than ever before possible.

Plastic, reconstructive, and cosmetic surgery.  Because of human cloning and its technology the days of silicone breast implants and other cosmetic procedures that may cause immune disease should soon be over. With the new technology, instead of using materials foreign to the body for such procedures, doctors will be able to manufacture bone, fat, connective tissue, or cartilage that matches the patients tissues exactly.  Anyone will able to have their appearance altered to their satisfaction without the leaking of silicone gel into their bodies or the other problems that occur with present day plastic surgery. Victims of terrible accidents that deform the face should now be able to have their features repaired with new, safer, technology. Limbs for amputees may be able to be regenerated.

Risks
Learn genetics utah edu. said...

Cloned animals that do survive tend to be much bigger at birth than their natural counterparts. Scientists call this "Large Offspring Syndrome" (LOS). Clones with LOS have abnormally large organs. This can lead to breathing, blood flow and other problems.

Because LOS doesn't always occur, scientists cannot reliably predict whether it will happen in any given clone. Also, some clones without LOS have developed kidney or brain malformations and impaired immune systems, which can cause problems later in life.

As cells divide, their chromosomes get shorter. This is because the DNA sequences at both ends of a chromosome, called telomeres, shrink in length every time the DNA is copied. The older the animal is, the shorter its telomeres will be, because the cells have divided many, many times. This is a natural part of aging.

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So, what happens to the clone if its transferred nucleus is already pretty old? Will the shortened telomeres affect its development or lifespan?

When scientists looked at the telomere lengths of cloned animals, they found no clear answers. Chromosomes from cloned cattle or mice had longer telomeres than normal. These cells showed other signs of youth and seemed to have an extended lifespan compared with cells from a naturally conceived cow. On the other hand, Dolly the sheep's chromosomes had shorter telomere lengths than normal. This means that Dolly's cells were aging faster than the cells from a normal sheep.

To date, scientists aren't sure why cloned animals show differences in telomere length.

Questions

Questions (interviewee Mr. Gu.

What do you think about cloning people in the future? A: “I am mostly against it.” “I think that it will create problems.”

Would you go on the yes side or the no side of cloning? A:He says no.

Would you adopt a clone if they were widely accepted and become safe? A: He says yes he would adopt one.

What do you think risks and benefits are? A: risks might create monsters. The benefits are  that people will be smarter and better.

Would you be involved in this process? A: he says no he would not be involved.

Reflection

I think it is worth a try. I would hope to see it work and have lots of benefits. I would like to see them save human lives and make the future a better place. It might make some people mad but if the world wants it then they will make it happen.  It will bring lots of money into the economy.

Resources

Http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/cloningrisks/. (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2015.

Http://www.humancloning.org/benefits.php. (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2015.