Farewell to the Fiction in the Science of Cloning
In his 1930’s futuristic novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley predicted a society where the human race was created in a laboratory and carried to term in incubators. At the time it was regarded as being ludicrously impossible. The idea of cloning in the eighties required multiple reproductions of specialized cells. Even then, the possibility of cloning was unachievable. Recently, scientists cloned a lamb, simply by replicating the cell in the skin tissue. It is now happening in all parts of the world: Scotland, England, America, and Australia. As technology increases, doubts and “what-ifs” turn into realities. Three essays were examined concerning cloning endangered and extinct animals and the benefits and detriments of therapeutic cloning. Matt Ridley, from the article “The Lure of Detinction”, claims there is “finally a noble use for cloning. To date,” he states, “it has only been promised to serve the human race’s vanity, by producing doppelgangers, and hypochondria, by providing spare livers. But with the announcement that cloning has been applied to vanished species, to reverse their extinction, it suddenly seems a rather higher calling” (1-4). A Massachusetts’s company has taken the first steps by cloning a rare Indian
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Approximate Word count = 930
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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