Wouldn't it be wonderful to talk to yourself, but wait before you scream at me 'What, are you mad?', think a minute about cloning. Being able to talk to an exact replica of yourself would be exciting, don't you think?, someone who understands your every line of thought, someone who would never question your actions and someone who would always laugh at all you jokes, that would be bliss.
             Clones have been exploited in hundreds of Hollywood productions. They traverse the big screen as crowds of dehumanized humans destined for monotonous drudgery, as invincible armies of lookalikes from deep space, as replicas of maniacs and the ultimate, the resurrected dead. But now fantasy becomes reality and a new age dawns, a age where the medical frontier is pushed even further.
             Now that genetically modified and copied mammals are a reality , scientists are researching ways in which cloning can be used for the greater good of man.
             But first : HOW TO CLONE as described by the creator of the cloned sheep
             Dolly. Cloning is based on nuclear transfer, which requires two cells of which the recipient cell is an unfertilized egg taken from an animal after ovulation. Such eggs are poised to start development when they are appropriately stimulated . The donor cell is the one who would be copied. A researcher holds the recipient egg by suction on the end of pipette, under a high powered microscope, and uses a very fine micro pipette to suck chromosomes. Then the donor cell complete with its nucleus is fused with the recipient egg. Fused cells start to develop and produce offspring if implanted in the uterus of a surrogate mother.
             The power to make animals with a precise engineered genetic construct could also be used more directly in cell-base therapies for important illness such as Parkinson's disease, diabetes and muscular dystrophy. At present none of these diseases as any fully effective treatment.
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