[occavi]

A lady named Cindy Jacobs once pointed out that europe cloned Dolly the sheep and a few years lost millions of livestock and money to madcow,woe unto us if we clone a human.....

[wordapeople]

I think it should for medical reasons eg transplants, but not without strict restrictions to curb man 's ego.

[mwananchi_]

Human cloning is O.K. with me. People have been cloning themselves for a long time only they called it procreation. The only weakness with the natural method was that you never knew what you were going to get. But with artificial cloning you can customize your order eliminating any surprises or complications.

[kenyana]

The cloning process is hazardous and very sloppy. Reproductive cloning of humans should be banned until the ratio btw embryos cloned and viable offspring in animals is 1:1 (Currently less than 5% of all embryos cloned are born!) I'll advocate for cloning of humans only after these statistics improve.
Therapeutic cloning or cloning human tissue for transplantion is a brilliant idea tho'.... I got nothing against that! http://members.fortunecity.com/kenya...tures/grin.gif

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[mwewe]

Who wants to estimate a time frame before we see a human clone?

I say... er... 12 years from today...

[kenyana]

>I say... er... 12 years from today...

I say sooner!
'nother thing...
Scientists believe cloned animals are prone to suffer premature aging because cloning involves putting genes from a mature animal into an egg
ie. Mwewe's 6yr old clone might look just as old as Mwewe..... only shorter!!...http://members.fortunecity.com/kenya...ures/shock.gif ... oh quel horreur! BAN HUMAN CLONING NOW..... can I get an AMEN?!
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[Vipiman]

>cloning involves putting genes from a
>mature animal into an egg
>Mwewe's 6yr old clone might look just as
>old as him..... only
>shorter!!...>... oh quel horreur! BAN HUMAN CLONING
>NOW..... can i get an AMEN?!



AMEN TO THAT!

[Vipiman]

Remember Dolly? well apparently Dolly has developed athritis at a very young age, raising fears about the whole cloning process. The develpement process is far ahead of consequences.
About human cloning, i would not be surprised if this has been done already, we all know that Genomic reaseachers always drop the bombshell after the fact! Infact a secret firm in Nebraska is currently advancing to produce a replacement copy of a 10 month old baby that died...and guess when they expect the clone to be born? read this..

http://www.globalchange.com/clonaid.htm

[waweru]

They said one of the reasons that Dolly developed Arthritis could be the fact that she was made of already very old (by sheep standards) genetic material.

Cloning should be aproached very cautiously, especially considering that it is the same geneticists who gave us the HIV virus; which they are currently unable to contain.

They might clone something that will be the demise of the good old comic, dramatic humans as we know them!