Current Applications of Cloning
Improved Animal Varieties
Plant and Animal Breeders can use cloning techniques so they can have larger amounts of meat, eggs, milk and other similar products.
In fact, the above is already being done by splitting high breed embryos many times. However, even this is a lengthy process, and there is a limit to the number of times that a single embryo can be split up. In comparison, animal cloning is going to be much more easy, and there is no upper limit upon the number of offspring that can be produced from a single source. Thus cloning would become commercially the most attractive and profitable option for breeders.
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Medicine has reached such a state that it is able to use tissues from embryos for treating many kinds of physical disorders and sicknesses. For example, the brain cells of an embryo injected into people with certain degenerative diseases, result in unusual levels of cure. In some cases this seems to be the only treatment at present, and plenty of people are eager to get brain cells from a fetus.
Plant and Animal Breeders can use cloning techniques so they can have larger amounts of meat, eggs, milk and other similar products.
In fact, the above is already being done by splitting high breed embryos many times. However, even this is a lengthy process, and there is a limit to the number of times that a single embryo can be split up. In comparison, animal cloning is going to be much more easy, and there is no upper limit upon the number of offspring that can be produced from a single source. Thus cloning would become commercially the most attractive and profitable option for breeders.
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Medicine has reached such a state that it is able to use tissues from embryos for treating many kinds of physical disorders and sicknesses. For example, the brain cells of an embryo injected into people with certain degenerative diseases, result in unusual levels of cure. In some cases this seems to be the only treatment at present, and plenty of people are eager to get brain cells from a fetus.
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Future Applications of Cloning
Medical Purposes - Cloning for laboratories
We could clone a series of laboratory mice which are genetically identical. in doing this, we could use the mice to test gene-therapy (using genes to prevent diseases) or medicines to see the effects on them. We can also then be sure that the effects that have taken place were due to the therapy, and not the genetic differences of the mice.
Agricultural Applications - Genetically Modified Cattle for a Specific Purpose
Cloning could result in the mass production of genetically modified cattle that have the best qualities. For example, cattle with the best milk produce.
Transgenic animals (animals engineered to carry genes from species other than their own) can be made to produce a wide variety of proteins that could be sold as drugs or proteins. Cloning can make creation of transgenic animals to be mass-produced. Large numbers of transgenic animals could produce vast quantities of needed drugs and other useful substances more efficiently and at a much lower cost.
We could clone a series of laboratory mice which are genetically identical. in doing this, we could use the mice to test gene-therapy (using genes to prevent diseases) or medicines to see the effects on them. We can also then be sure that the effects that have taken place were due to the therapy, and not the genetic differences of the mice.
Agricultural Applications - Genetically Modified Cattle for a Specific Purpose
Cloning could result in the mass production of genetically modified cattle that have the best qualities. For example, cattle with the best milk produce.
Transgenic animals (animals engineered to carry genes from species other than their own) can be made to produce a wide variety of proteins that could be sold as drugs or proteins. Cloning can make creation of transgenic animals to be mass-produced. Large numbers of transgenic animals could produce vast quantities of needed drugs and other useful substances more efficiently and at a much lower cost.
