Ethical Issues in Cloning: Review

Cloning is the way toward taking hereditary data from one living thing and making indistinguishable duplicates of it. The duplicated material is known as a clone. Cell, tissue, and livestock have been cloned by geneticists. It appears that Dolly, Ian Wilmot's sheep in Scotland cloned around the world a long time ago (but it was only 1997). Dolly was a clone of the ovine that donated somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to an egg from which the nucleus was removed, where the genetic material was injected. Shortly before a successful mammalian cloning, the ethical controversy had already begun, but ignited a penetrating discussion and demands for constitutional bans on human cloning. One of the key ethical concerns posed by successful cloning of animals is whether human emulating is acceptable, and under what circumstances. The medical application of human cloning for stem cell research is a related topic. Each expose complex ethical and political issues; I will touch on only a few of them in this room.