Cloning

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th humans. This leads us to the most talked about aspects of cloning, the use of the techniques with human cells and eggs. Throughout this century, conversation, novels, magazine articles, newspaper reports, and movies have focused on the implications of cloning humans. Part of this media creates thoughts of a utopian society, while some a horrific world; the majority of them being the latter. For those who have had these frightening thoughts, Dr. Richard Seed states he can accomplish the task of cloning a human using nuclear transfer. Dr. Seed is a physicist who researched fertility sciences in the 1980's and is now specializing in embryology. He states that he has set up a fertility clinic that can conduct nuclear transfer. Dr. Richard Seed is creating an uproar regarding the ethics of cloning. This is ironic because cloning has occurred. (Flock, 1998) Cloning of humans in a biological sense already has and is occurring. Scientists are researching by splitting embryos to execute experiments to find data relating to cell differentiation, the u...