With cloning, you are forcing nature to do something that it does not want to, so the new risks are to be expected.
CNN: Human stem cell cloning: 'Holy Grail' or techno-fantasy?
They're reshaping DNA, curing hereditary diseases, flirting with cloning.
With human cloning technology just around the corner and enough frozen sperm in the world to already populate many generations, perhaps we should perform a cost-benefit analysis.
McCARTHY: Santos, an agronomist and native of Portugal, says specialists from Lisbon are here with him cloning grapes from Shiraz to Chardonnay to cultivate on his land, an experiment he hopes will develop the varieties most apt to thrive in this dry climate.
"Pursuing perfect babies, ageless bodies and happy souls with the aid of cloning, genetic engineering and psychopharmacology, " he thinks, are among the most significant of those threats.
"Even if cloning begins with a benign purpose, it could lead to scientific categories of superior and inferior people, " said Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Republican from Florida.
But cloning is fraught with difficulty: fewer than 5% of eggs from common laboratory species result in live births.
Rep. Peter Deutsch, D-Florida, a co-sponsor of the Greenwood measure, said he agreed with the idea that human cloning should be banned, but said some cloning practices should be allowed for the sake of scientific research.
"We cannot permit the cloning of, interference with, or misuse of British passports by another state, " he said.
The Brazilian soaps, however, are more sophisticated, with different stories, like human cloning or love between Muslims and Christians and more of the social realism.
ACT's success with a technique known as interspecies cloning.
RNL-Bio began its cloning work in cooperation with Seoul National University in Korea, where Hwang Woo-suk, the controversial professor later found guilty of scientific fraud, produced the first cloned dog, Snuppy.
And you could fill a public library with Jeremy Rifkin's lamentations over cloning, biotechnology and Holstein cows that give too much milk.
The citation for his knighthood credits Prof Wilmut with "revolutionising" biology through the cloning technique which underpins the science of stem cell technology.
Right now, cloning technology is very unreliable--with only a handful of successes for every attempt in animals.
Turning any extremophile into drugs would likely require cloning their antibiotic molecules and manufacturing them with help from a more suitable carrier organism.
New units spice things up with the inclusion of the Weather Control Device, Cloning Vats, and the mind controlling Yuri troops, among others.
The ethical implications of embryonic cloning continue to divide the international community, with the UK and South Korea among only a handful of countries that permit embryonic stem cell research.
I've been pondering the other shortlisted authors' styles - Ishiguro's prose was also very deliberate and spare, but with the effect of creating an Enid Blytonesque tale of cloning and organ harvesting.
This week, the controversial couple, together with Brigitte Boisselier, the head of Clonaid, the cloning arm of the Raelians (a slightly weird sect), repeated the trick for the cameras at America's National Academy of Sciences.
This happened last summer when the House of Representatives passed legislation that bans all applications of human cloning -- both research and reproductive -- with stiff penalties for violators.
That scandal, as well as ethical concerns about the dangers of encouraging work that could lead to human cloning, dried up interest in getting the process to work with human cells.
Startups in China are no longer just cloning successful ideas from the U.S. but are coming up with original and sometimes breakthrough ideas.
But with a tenth of all bird species and a fifth of mammals on the verge of extinction, cloning is better than nothing.
So if you have an application with sensitive customer data such as names, addresses, social security numbers and credit card numbers, thoughtless cloning can result in major exposure.
The last time I checked with biologists, philosophers and even politicians on both sides of the debates about abortion, stem cell research and cloning, they were pretty certain human individuals were defined by two sets of chromosomes (half from the male, half from the female) which were arranged in the one-celled zygote after fertilization.
FORBES: Biologist Asserts Your Life Began...Before Fertilization.
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