[andyman]

... In 1997 the Roslin institute, Edinburgh, announced that it had succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell taken from the mammary gland of an adult ewe. The nucleus of the cell had been fused with an unfertilized egg cell from which the nucleic DNA had been removed. The resulting offspring was named Dolly.. (after dolly parton, the country and western singer.

Is this a good idea? What does the future hold? Is this a step forward or is it dark science that should be left alone?....

[Sticks]

If I remember Dolly had arthritis which was a result of the cloning process, however cloning can go on in nature, everytime someone gives birth to identical twins.

My understanding is that the science is still a work inprogress, with the aim to grow tissue samples for medical applications, rather than produce cloned individuals.

[NettoSuperstar!]

I think it could be good for growing body parts needed for transplants and such like but If they were to clone a human I think its wrong and I hope it would never happen, I dont really know why It just seems wrong and needs furthur thought

[30stone]

Cloning full people would be awful

[Sticks]

Originally posted by 30stone
Cloning full people would be awful

As opposed to empty people?

[30stone]

Originally posted by Sticks

As opposed to empty people?

its would be like they would end up making people just for slavery and that, i think limbs and organs could be good but full people that can walk and talk i think they should just leave that sorta thing alone.

[lily.]

Originally posted by Sticks

As opposed to empty people?

No.

As opposed to half people.

You're on fire lately sticks..

[Sticks]

That must be the new smoking jacket

or possibly the new blazer

[NettoSuperstar!]

Originally posted by 30stone

its would be like they would end up making people just for slavery and that, i think limbs and organs could be good but full people that can walk and talk i think they should just leave that sorta thing alone.

yeh I think you've got a point, its the reasons why they would be doing it that would bother me! There is no reason I can see to clone whole humans.

[Tom]

Cloning is good but only when organs etc are cloned not full animals. I don't agree with full animals being cloned because it leads to health problems, and if a human was cloned then there would be a lot of grey areas, for example would a cloned person have any human rights? Would it be OK to clone a person with the intent of removing its organs, only for the clone to die? Is the clone actually a person? etc ...