Human Cloning is it just around the corner??

[jiggles]

What would be the point of cloning an entire human?

I can understand the point of view that it's handy for transplants, transfusions etc...but really...isn't that just a guinea pig? Wouldn't this clone be a human too?

Link couldn't open for me, so I may have missed the point.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

poko - the movie 'The Island' covers that exact point....

cloned organs growing in a box somewhere is where cloning should lead.  Cloning humans ain't right. 

I know the usual scientific response is that there needs to be a substantial argument to NOT do something, and there probably isn't much of one, but the line's gotta be drawn somewhere, as arbitrary as it may be. 

 

[~Floss~]

Sounds good in principle, but to grow a healthy, functioning organ you would need a system of delivering blood, oxygen, nutrients and maintaining the fine balance of chemicals, temperature, etc and precisely-timed hormonal signals, waste-removal... i.e. all the stuff that is present within the environment of a normal human body... controlled by "organs".

If you could create something to do all those things effectively for an "organ in a box", you wouldn't need to be growing a single organ in the first place; you'd obviously have the technology to do its job some other way.

 

[clarence]

Lol

Make that 11 Musc**t's Vs 11 Jamie McMasters

Fixed for you.  ;D

(Probably the only 'hero' moment for Jamie while with the Mariners!)

 

[Paolo]

You obviously havnt seen him drink then

 

[Ted]

I'm all for cloning within moral boundaries. Giving someone a vital organ transplant with that organ being their own exact DNA would be safer and much more successful than the risks currently involved with transplants. Not to metion the reduced cost associated with organ rejection, etc.

As for a complete human clone, that oversteps the boundaries of what is morally decent IMO.