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Though the researchers originally planned to produce disease and patient-specific stem cells using the controversial practice of therapeutic cloning, which requires both a supply of human egg cells and the destruction embryos created to produce the stem cell lines, they opted instead to use a newer technique called "direct...
Issues of human commodification will continue to frame debates in the future with the advancements of biotechnology. This has already begun in conjunction with genomic research, cloning, and the commodification of DNA. We will need to consider the practicality and efficacy of our legislation more so than people�...
In the meantime, cloning has become an increasingly important tool for medical and public policy purposes in the developed world, with South Korea leading the charge. Last month, that nation’s customs office announced that its prize sniffer dog had been cloned to produce seven puppies that were...
Indeed, he represents the latest product of commercial pet cloning, a striking phenomenon that began in 2004 with a dead cat in north Texas. While the American firm that first cloned pets on the open market was shut down in 2006, the practice has hardly suffered or stagnated; in fact...
As the employment of cloning deviates further and further from strictly utilitarian purposes, the absence of definitive international regulations means that the only limits on cloning are technological capacity and consumer demand. In this environment, even benign pet-owner sentimentality can proceed unchecked to extreme ends, as in the aforementioned...