Dolly and Cloning
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Sure, we all think that baby lambs are cute and cuddly, but the birth of a lamb is rarely the occasion for headlines around the world. But the birth of a particular lamb named Dolly in February 1997 was indeed cause for just such worldwide notice because Dolly represented what was then (although the pace of technology is so fast that it already seems old hat) an astonishing scholarly and technological breakthrough. For Dolly was something close to a virgin birth: She had come into being not in the good old fashion mammalian way of egg and sperm coming together but rather through the cloning of the cells of an adult mammal. Suddenly the process of cloning, which before Dolly had seemed something very much a part of the world of late-night science fiction movies still, became not only possible but even probable as an ordinary event. And with this suddenly much higher profile of cloning the entire arena of stem cell research also became much better known to the general public. This paper examines the field of stem cell research and in particular its links with cloning as a way of exploring how stem cell research is increasingly allowing scholars to recreate the entire complex physiology of adult mammals - a concatenation of structures and processes that were developed over millions of years of natural selection and evolutionary change and that now seem - for both better and worse - almost within our grasp to control and manipulate (Elliott, 2000, p. 82).
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ch. These questions can generally be divided into two groups. One set of questions refers to the technical limitations of stem cell research: Is it possible, for example, to be able to grow a new human pancreas (for example) outside of a human body and then to transplant this pancreas into a person so that it is fully functional. The other set of questions is more difficult to answer because there are no factual responses in the way that there are to the first set and involve the ethics of stem cell research in general as well as that of cloning in particular. As we advance into the world of cloning and related science, we must ask ourselves if it is indeed ethical to play with DNA, to experiment with and manipulate the very code of all terrestrial life as if it were only another substance commonly found in the laboratory such as manganese - or a complex but basic component of modern technology such as a motherboard.
The first set of questions - as noted - can only be answered through scientific experimentation and progress. If scientists continue to pursue stem cell research it is likely that at least some of its promise (such as curing diabetes) will come about. But scientists may never have the chance to essay these experiment
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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