Skip to content

Unexplainable.net

Watching The World Change

  • Haunted Ontario: Brampton Ghost And Demons
  • Zodiac Compatibility: Taurus Space and Astrology
  • Paranormal Cruise Gets Second Place in Popularity Poll Ghost And Demons
  • The OITC Website In 2008 Benjamin Fulford Story
  • World in Collision Information and Theories
  • Monroe’s OOBE techniques Information and Theories
  • Mass Die Off of Cows Fuels Fears Simply Unexplainable
  • Will FMRI “Training Booth” One Day Replace Schools? Technology Articles

Dolly the Sheep: She’s Ba-a-a-ack

Posted on December 1, 2010 By jim No Comments on Dolly the Sheep: She’s Ba-a-a-ack
Mooker

Dolly the Sheep, the first such animal to be cloned was big news first in 1996 quickly developed several genetic birth defects and had to be put down seven years after her birth.  Imperfections in the cloning process made Dolly suffer a number of diseases that cast a shadow on the prospect of cloning for several years up until just recently.  And now Dolly, or rather four clones exactly like her, is once again walking the Earth.

The death of Dolly the sheep raised several questions about the ethics of cloning a creature if the process was imperfect and would ensure genetic defects that would cause it to suffer.  But now with the development of these new clones, it seems many of the problems once recognized by Ian Wilmutt and Keith Campbell – the heads of the project in Roslin Institute, Scotland – have been worked out.  And now an army of cloned sheep can be made all exactly alike.

The move was one part experiment, and one part attempt to prove that cloning has been improved a great deal since Dolly the sheep first walked the Earth.  And now with the cloning process improved a great deal, the ethics of cloning a human being will have to be resolved without the ability to fall back on the idea that such a process is not advanced enough to allow for clones to survive.  In essence, the existence of four healthy cloned Dollies will mean the ethical debate will happen on new ground.  And movements such as Redline, an anti cloning organization propose that the line should not be drawn at mere safety, but at human identity.

To better understand the cloning debate it will be important to take into consideration the intricate and difficult questions that are raised by the debate.  First, there are those who are for the cloning of humans and animals for numerous reasons.  These individuals advocate the right for a “donor” to give up their cells in order for a perfect replica to be made for themselves.  Some suggest the line should be made where human clones are grown and then allowed to live perfectly autonomous lives as offspring would of their donors.  A far more disturbing prospect is raised when some suggest that the process could also be used in order to allow human surrogates to be grown like cattle and then used for organ donation purposes.  While this is a horrifying alternative often proposed in anti cloning circles, the actual likelihood of such a program being used in order to allow a select few to harvest organs from their own clones.  This form would be known as therapeutic reproductive cloning.  The old body would have the brain removed and replaced in a newly grown body.  The most obvious major point of controversy here is that the cloned body would then lose its brain.  Of course this would be by most definitions of the word, murder.  Still, proponents of therapeutic reproductive cloning suggest that the process could be engineered where the brain of a clone would never be allowed to develop, and as it grew the autonomic functions of the body would be controlled by a computerized brain.  Such are the dilemmas that will no doubt be one day raised by a human race seeking immortality.  Proponents suggest the matter can not be wholesale disregarded because they are uncomfortable, however, as the ultimate answer could lead to a world where death is virtually nonexistent.

Technology Articles

Post navigation

Previous Post: The Antimatter Bomb: Mankind’s Greatest Threat?
Next Post: Scientist Suspects Alien Life Form in Ice Block

Related Posts

  • Scientists Learning to Control Antimatter Technology Articles
  • Mind Reading Computers Closer Than Ever Technology Articles
  • New Discovery Could Make Electricity from Thin Air Technology Articles
  • Jupiter Technologies: Highest Technology Used Technology Articles
  • Magnetism and its Effects on the Living System Technology Articles
  • Are we 20 Years from Underwater Living? Technology Articles

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • Mahavatar Babaji: The Yogi alive for 2000 years
  • Spirituality and science conflict
  • Conspiracies and myths about spirituality
  • Know your Ki: Reiki
  • 10 amazing plants to promote spirituality and positivity

Recent Comments

No comments to show.

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • May 2020
  • June 2018
  • February 2018
  • July 2016
  • May 2016
  • February 2016
  • September 2015
  • July 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • July 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • June 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • March 2006
  • February 2006
  • January 2006
  • December 2005
  • November 2005
  • October 2005
  • September 2005
  • August 2005
  • July 2005
  • June 2005
  • May 2005
  • April 2005
  • March 2005
  • February 2005
  • January 2005
  • December 2004
  • November 2004
  • October 2004
  • September 2004
  • August 2004
  • July 2004
  • June 2004
  • May 2004
  • April 2004
  • March 2004
  • February 2004
  • January 2004
  • December 2003
  • November 2003
  • October 2003

Categories

  • Ancient Civilizations
  • Benjamin Fulford Story
  • Cryptology and Monsters
  • Eating Healthy
  • Ghost And Demons
  • Information and Theories
  • Mars Coverage
  • Meditation And Spirituality
  • Mysteries
  • NASA Articles
  • Other Exciting News
  • Personal Accounts
  • Pictures And Multimedia
  • Political Conspiracies
  • Recent Submissions
  • Religion Articles
  • Self Improvement
  • Simply Unexplainable
  • Space and Astrology
  • Technology Articles
  • True Stories
  • UFOs and Aliens
  • Unexplainable Video Library
  • Unexplainable Weather
  • Genesis is an Evolutionary Account Recent Submissions
  • Will the ‘Super-Moon’ Bring More Earthquakes? Unexplainable Weather
  • Dream Interpretations 16: Musical Instruments Meditation And Spirituality
  • Paranormal & Ghost Movie Facts , “Amityville 2: The Possession” (1982) Ghost And Demons
  • Seized Shipping Crate Contained Over 40 Human Heads Information and Theories
  • Advanced Ancient Technology: Osirian Ancient Civilizations
  • Past Life Regression Information and Theories
  • Naughty Women in Ancient History: Amastris Ancient Civilizations

Copyright © 2023 Unexplainable.net.

Powered by PressBook News Dark theme