Researchers have begun to bombard our nation and the rest of the world with questions about how far science can and should go. Scientific breakthroughs and discovery continue unfettered, and the biomedical attacks on innocent human life threaten the sanctity of...
Bioethics
Who Supports Human Cloning?
Return to Human Cloning Home Page Why would anyone want to create cloned human embryos? Some scientists think that stem cells extracted from cloned human embryos will be useful for the treatment of human diseases. They claim that a clone of the patient will...
Ethics and Human Cloning
Return to Human Cloning Home Page Does research on cloned human embryos cause the death of those embryos? Yes. When scientists dismember cloned human embryos by extracting their stem cells, the inner cell mass is destroyed, causing the death of the...
Policy and Human Cloning
Return to Human Cloning Home Page Does a human cloning ban prohibit in vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques? No. A ban on human cloning only prohibits the creation of cloned human embryos (through asexual reproduction). In vitro fertilization is sexual...
In Their Own Words
Return to Human Cloning Home Page Embryonic stem cell researchers comment on the challenges of using stem cells from embryos: Rarely have specific growth factors or culture conditions led to establishment of cultures containing a single cell type….[T]he...
Human Cloning
Return to Embryo Experimentation and Human Cloning Home Page The Science of Human Cloning Who Supports Human Cloning Ethics and Human Cloning Policy and Human Cloning In Their Own Words
The Science of Human Cloning
Return to Human Cloning Home Page How is a human being cloned? Human beings are cloned through asexual reproduction. Currently, the main process of asexual reproduction used is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). What is asexual reproduction? Asexual...
Embryo experimentation and cloning
Researchers have begun to bombard our nation and the rest of the world with questions about how far science can and should go. Scientific breakthroughs and discovery continue unfettered, and the biomedical attacks on innocent human life threaten the sanctity of...