Cloning

Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another and I am going to talk about human cloning, because I think most of us know about it from science fiction movies than from the news. I wish that this information will be interesting to you as it was to me.

Firstly, there are three types of human cloning: therapeutic, reproductive and replacement. Therapeutic cloning involves cloning cells from an adult for use in medicine and is an active area of research, it clones only the organs of human body to use them as transplants so that the body of the patient would not reject them. Reproductive cloning is making human clones. Replacement cloning is only theoretically possible and would entail the replacement of an extensively damaged, failed, or failing body through cloning followed by whole or partial brain transplant.

Secondly, the ethical views on human cloning are very different, but most of the countries banned all kinds of human cloning, but there are countries where it is legal. In some countries therapeutic cloning is legal, but the thing is that private clinics can do all kinds of researches on cloning and the law cannot control that.

All in all, human cloning is not science fiction anymore, it is the real thing, but most countries, religions look at it skeptically and it slows downs its research. I think it is the future of the regenerative medicine and at least therapeutic cloning should be approved in most of countries.

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/whatiscloning/