With the use of modern technology, man has been able to create life. Scientists have done research and performed successful experiments that have cloned pigs, sheep, and various organs. While there is virtually no limit on cloning animals, there are vast limitations on cloning anything involved with humans. There are people on certain sides saying that man should not be able to create another human through cloning because it goes against their religious alignment. Religion should not be able to hold humanity back in advancing to the future to help the well-being of all mankind. The cloning of human parts such as organs, tissue, muscle, etc. It should not be hindered because of its health benefits, and the cloning of humans, as a whole, should not be hindered because it is our natural right to advance as a species and learn what else we can learn about ourselves.
The era of cloning started when the sheep Dolly was fabricated in 1996 (CITE). Cloning is actually the procedure of producing a genetic copy of an organism through a technique called nuclear transplantation, which is a process of removing a nucleus. Therefore, the sheep was clone through SCNT (somatic cell nuclear transfer) by eliminating the nucleus from other cell or a skin (mammary gland cell in Dolly’s case). The nucleus is further then injected into an egg. Then, the engineered egg is stimulated, and the embryo comes into asexual reproduction if cloning works. The cloning would be complete if this happened. Then, if the cloned embryo inserts in a mother, it grows like a natural embryo via the fatal stage of birth. Numerous mammals are now regularly cloned — cattle, pigs, and mice, to name a few. Scientists found that monkeys are a difficult species to make through SCNT, and they have not succeeded in bringing a cloned monkey to birth until now.
The next step would be to clone humans. Compared with animal cloning, human cloning has been more technically challenging. A group of scientists in many scientific journals established outcomes of embryos of cloned humans, emerging four of them for almost ten days in a dish to the blastocyst stage ( around 150-200 cells). The blastocyst stage is when embryos manufactured in vitro are generally inserted if they are to be gestated to birth. The purpose of recent research was not that. The process is called “therapeutic cloning” —instead, embryonic cell lines are manufactured, and cloned embryos are destroyed. Therefore, human cloning is significant for research purposes or for birth. It is important in medical treatments and the search for biological knowledge.
Human cloning is better in some ways, and it can be worse as well, so it is important to learn and understand the arguments from both sides. Human cloning is quite beneficial for the infertile couples to provide biological children, couples who do not conceive a child, in order to have a biological child they clone themselves. It also provides for lesbian and gay couples to have a child that includes parents’ genes and DNA.
The proper adoption of human cloning expanded medical research in other worlds and cured many medical conditions. As a result of this, curing most of the deadly and terminal diseases replaced the body parts and organs as well, and improved medicines. Adult stem cells will be cloned to interchange destructive tissues with therapeutic cloning. With the method of human cloning, body parts, amputated legs, and, say, could be replaced. It can be possible to reproduce the missing body parts and attach them to the patient’s leg through surgery. It can also solve the problem of organ donation, patient himself can give healthy tissues and cells that can be used for transplant organ and cloned.
