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A Smart Idea With A Questionable Outcome

A Smart Idea with a Questionable Outcome
In modern times the thought of cloning a human being is very much alive in the minds of many scientists today. But, this idea wasn't brought to the people's attention until 1818, when Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published. The thought of creating a human being without two parents present seemed impossible, if not completely immoral. But that wouldn't stop the wondering minds from trying to pursue it. People took this idea and started studying it, the more people learned from their studies the more doors opened up to what is now the study of Biotechnology. Who knew an illusory story could create a break through in history as big as this in the field of therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic cloning is a brilliant idea but is also very questionable. According to Michael Quinion, "The focus of ethics and public policy has shifted from an alarmist and rather fanciful preoccupation with human reproductive cloning to an emphasis on therapeutic cloning for cell and tissue replacement and repair (Quinion)."In the research of therapeutic cloning there are more positive benefits than negative. To relieve the strain of the lack of organs available for transplant, the regeneration of damaged organs and body tissues, and also the thoughts against human cloning.
Therapeutic cloning is a method used to generate cloned embryos. This type of cloning is also called "embryo cloning". Since most of the cloning is done by taking stem cells from embryos. Scientists only use the stems cells that they get from the cloned

embryos for repairing damaged or defective tissue. Some of these cells can be used to grow any variety of organs that are needed as a replacement without the fear of rejection from the person's body. The stems cells are from the parent of the cloned cells. "In some cases they might be used to create healthy nerve cells for people with Alzheimer's or Parkinson disease, or even skin cells could be derived from...