It would be great if you could tell me your personal reasons for supporting this possible technology, as well as some responses on the following issues that could arise as a result of human cloning:
- identity crisis (crime/fraud, acknowledgement, employment, travel - especially in a world where identity is so heavily policed)
- access (for example, some people having greater access to the technology due to financial status or location)
- regulation (legislation and the possibility of a 'black-market' in cloning)
- any other opinions you may have
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Cloning History Fact
Did you know that in January 1998 Botechnology firm Perkin-Elmer Corporation announced that it wold work with gene sequencing expert J. Craig Venture to privately map the human genome.
Cloning History Fact
Did you know in July 1998 Ryuzo Yanagimachi, Toni Perry, and Teruhiko Wakayama announced that they had cloned 50 mice from adult cells since October, 1997.
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Did you know that on January 20, 1998 The Food and Drug Administration announced that it had authority over human cloning.
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Did you know that in early January 1998 19 European nations signed a ban on human cloning.
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Did you know that on December 5, 1997 Richard Seed announced that he intended to clone a human before federal laws could effectively prohibit the process.
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Did you know that in September 1997 Thousands of biologists and physicians signed a voluntary five-year moratorium on human cloning in the United States.
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Did you know in August 1997 President Clinton proposed legislation to ban the cloning of humans for at least 5 years.
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Did you know on July 1997 Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, the scientists who created Dolly, also created Polly, a Poll Dorset lamb cloned from skin cells grown in a lab and genetically altered to contain a human gene.
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Did you know on March 4, 1997 President Clinton proposed a five year moratorium on federal and privately funded human cloning research.
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Did you know that on February 23, 1997 Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland officially announced the birth of "Dolly"
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Did you know on July 5, 1996 Dolly, the first organism ever to be cloned from adult cells, was born.
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Did you know that in July 1995 Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell used differentiated embryo cells to clone two sheep, named Megan and Morag.
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Did you know that in 1993 M. Sims and N.L. First reported the creation of calves by transfer of nuclei from cultured embryonic cells.
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Did you know that in October 1990 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) officially launched the Human Genome Project to locate the 50,000 to 100,000 genes and sequence the estimated 3 billion nucleotides of the human genome.
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Did you know that in 1986 Neal First, Randal Prather, and Willard Eyestone used early embryo cells to clone a cow.
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Did you know that in 1986 Artificially inseminated surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead gave birth to Baby M. She tried and failed to retain custody.
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Did you know that in 1986 using differentiated, one week old embryo cells, Steen Willadsen cloned a cow.
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Did you know that in 1985 Ralph Brinster created the first transgenic livestock: pigs that produced human growth hormone.
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Did you know that in 1985 Steen Willadsen used his cloning technique to duplicate prize cattle embryos.
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Did you know that in 1984 Steen Willadsen cloned a sheep from embryo cells, the first verified example of mammal cloning using the process of nuclear transfer.
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Did you know between the years 1983 and 1986 Marie A. Di Berardino, Nancy H. Orr, and Robert McKinnell transplanted nuclei of adult frog erythrocytes, thus obtained pre-feeding and feeding tadpoles.
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Did you know that in 1983 The first human mother-to-mother embryo transfer was completed.
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Did you know that in 1983 Davor Solter and David McGrath tried to clone mice using their own version of the nuclear transfer method.
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Did you know that in 1983 Kary B. Mullis developed the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This process allows for the rapid synthesis of designated fragments of DNA.
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Did you know that in 1980 in the case Diamond v. Chakrabarty, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a "live, human made microorganism is patentable material."
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Did you know that in 1978 Baby Louise, the first child conceived through in vitro fertilization, was born.
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Did you know that in 1978 David Rorvik published the novel In His Image: The Cloning of a Man.
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Did you know that in 1977 Karl Illmensee and Peter Hoppe created mice with only a single parent.
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Did you know that in 1973 Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer created the first recombinant DNA organism using recombinant DNA techniques pioneered by Paul Berg. Also known as gene splicing, this technique that allows scientists to manipulate the DNA of an organism - the basis of genetic engineering.
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Did you know that in 1972 Paul Berg combined the DNA of two different organisms, thus creating the first recombinant DNA molecules.
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Did you know that in 1970 Howard Temin and David Baltimore each independently isolated the first restriction enzyme.
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Did you know that in 1969 James Shapiero and Johnathan Beckwith announced that they had isolated the first gene.
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Did you know that in 1967 DNA ligase, the enzyme responsible for binding together strands of DNA, was isolated.
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Did you know that in 1966 John B. Gurdon and V. Uehlinger grew adult frogs after injecting tadpole intestinal cell nuclei into enucleated oocytes.
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Did you know that in 1966 Marshall Niremberg, Heinrich Mathaei, and Severo Ochoa broke the genetic code, discovering what codon sequences specified each of the twenty amino acids.
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Did you know that in 1964 F.C. Steward grew a complete carrot plant from a fully differentiated carrot root cell.
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Did you know that in 1963 Biologist J.B.S. Haldane coined the term "clone" in a speech entitled "Biological Possibilities for the Human Species of the Next Ten-Thousand Years."
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Did you know between the years 1962 and 1965 Robert G. McKinnell, Thomas J. King, and Marie A. Di Berardino produced swimming larvae from enucleated oocytes that had been injected with adult frog kidney carcinoma cell nuclei.
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Did you know that in 1962 Biologist John Gurdon announced that he had cloned South African frogs using the nucleus of fully differentiated adult intestinal cells. This demonstrated that cells' genetic potential do not diminish as the cell became specialized.
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Did you know that in 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson, working at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, discovered the structure of DNA.
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Did you know that in 1952 the first animal cloning happend: Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King cloned northern leopard frogs.
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Did you know that in 1950 the first successful freezing of bull semen at -79°C for later insemination of cows was accomplished.
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Did you know that in 1944 Oswald Avery found that a cell's genetic information was carried in DNA.
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Did you know that in 1938 Hans Spemann published the results of his 1928 primitive nuclear transfer experiments involving salamander embryos in the book "Embryonic Development and Induction." Spemann argued that the next step for research should be the cloning organisms by extracting the nucleus of a differentiated cell and putting it into an enucleated egg.
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Did you know that in 1928 Hans Spemann performed further, successful nuclear transfer experiments.
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Did you know that in 1914 Hans Spermann conducted an early nuclear transfer experiment.
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