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...
Embryos and Cloning
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...
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...
Human Cloning
What is Human Cloning? Cloning is a form of asexual reproduction. One method of asexual reproduction is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), in which the nucleus from a human egg is discarded and a somatic cell (any human cell other than an egg or sperm cell)...