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South Korea Bans Cloning

  • 26-09-2002 8:26am
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    South Korea has banned human cloning.

    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992847

    This is I think to be welcomed, because cloned organisms have the same cellular age as the organism that the cloned material is taken from. Thus Dolly the sheep aged rapidly.

    http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/chem227/nucleicfunction/cancer/sci-clone-aging.html

    To make a clone viable you would have to find a way of engineering the clone such that it was no longer cellularly as old as the organism the cloned material came from. Thus you open a Pandora's box for genetic engineering of humans, a Gattaca syndrom of Genetic Engineering and Eugenics.

    Many countries refuse to allow Genetically modified organisms to come into contact with the biosphere at large for fear of introducing an organism that has unforseen effects the environment in question.

    I'm not suggesting a cloned human would be akin to tomato with pig genes spliced into it, however I think the inference and implications of a cloned human and the genetic engineering that would have to be empolyed to de-age such an organism, would be again a Pandora's box to large scale Genetic engineering and Eugenics.


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