One chemical holds the secret of life. It contains the instructions for manufacturing everything from bacteria to a human being with trillions of specialized or genetically altered cells. The chemical is called deoxyribonucleic acid, or what is better known as DNA. It is about to change our world o...

Should Human Cloning be Legal? For years, part of the American public, and humans in general, have been fascinated with the possibility of creating human life by other than natural means. Cloning alters the very meaning of humanity; it is morally, ethically, and spiritually wrong. Many strongly d...

Should Human Cloning Be Permitted? For years, part of the American public, and humans in general, have been fascinated with the possibility of creating human li...

A FUTURE OF CLONING Let us discuss a future of cloning on animals and humans. We have heard about cloning for many years now. However, we did not know that they had actually been doing it, until they successfully cloned Dolly the sheep. What is cloning? Cloning is an organism, or group of ...

Biochemical Surgery The desire to improve our world is inherently human. From our health to our food, humans strive to enhance what we have. With the biotechnological age upon us, this desire is being channeled in directions that were previously unforeseen. Scientists have learned a great deal ...

A GIRL OR A BOY . . . YOU PICK In the July 23, 2002 issue of the Los Angeles Times Newspaper, there was an article entitled "A Girl or a Boy, You Pick" written by Aaron Zitner. The article discusses the embryo-sorting technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or "PGD" and how embry...

Early in 1997 Scottish scientist Dr. Ian Wilmot revealed to the world that he had successfully cloned an entire adult sheep. Dolly was the young clone's given name. With this announcement the world made a collective gasp at the realization that no longer was cloning a pipe dream or an element of sc...

In the 1940's the attention of geneticists was surprisingly focused on the Escherichia coli, colon bacterium. E. coli offered many advantages such as genetically being simpler, they are easily broken open and bacterial cells have little internal structure. For the fact that the E. coli popul...

Members of Congress: I am writing in reference to the possible upcoming technology of cloning humans and altering DNA tissue makeup of the unborn child. This issue will come before Congress for approval or disapproval in the near future. This technology would allow scientists to alter the t...

On February 24, 1997, the scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburg, Scotland announced their success in cloning an adult mammal for the first time. The cloned sheep was named Dolly. She was the first animal cloned from a cell taken from an adult. It was an accomplishment than science had d...

The Human Clay "On the sixth day God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God creat...

Introduction On February 24, 1997, the whole world was shocked by the news that Scottish scientists had successfully cloned a sheep. Dolly an artificially cloned mammal was born a star. After the shock, that cloning was not only a possibility but a reality, wore off the out cry against human clon...

Cloning There is one thing in the world today that separates us from God and that is the ability or power to create another human. Cloning not only goes against the ethics of a human being but also against the difference between God and man. There are many reasons that I feel we should not ...

As many people already know cloning has become a larger issue in the last few years. Throughout this report I will inform you of everything I know about cloning. I will start off with the definition of cloning. Then I will explore how cloning works. I will present important dates in cloning histo...