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Cloning
Summary: Essay discusses the controversial topic of cloning.
Cloning has made a great changing effect on society since a team of British scientists had successfully cloned an adult sheep. Since then religion and ethics have stood in the way of scientists and technology as far as human cloning. Due to ethical concerns Britain has banned human cloning, and research using human embryos is strictly regulated.
However, such experiments are not banned in the U.S. Dr. Ian Wilmut, "Dr. Frankenstein" from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, famous for creating, "Dolly," a lamb from the DNA of an adult sheep through a process called "nuclear transplantation;" states that cloning humans in possible but the myth about cloning the dead is not. He also states that through most of the successful clones the mortality rate is very high. He states that the primary purpose of cloning is to advance the development of the drug therapies to combat certain...
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