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When Dolly the sheep was first cloned she appeared healthy and normal. But as time passed, she showed signs of old age. Scientists say that she appeared to be the same age as the sheep she was cloned from, six years, though she herself was much younger than that...
The idea of "organ farming" has been around for a while. It involves using a "host" animal to grow organs to be transplanted in a person who has diseased organs. Pigs, it is said, make the ideal host, because their organs are similar to those of humans...
Businessmen are never slow to see a money-making venture, and the realm of cloning and genomes is fair game. A great deal of the research has been carried out be private firms with the vision of coming up with a marketable "product" from the field of cloning...
New problems have arisen regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) due to the present globalization of society. One of the IPR issues being debated is how much of a role they play in strengthening the present gap between the global haves and have-nots...
Knowing that someone, somewhere has a file with a lot of information about your life--your bank records, credit card purchases, travel, school, family information--doesn't make most people feel very comfortable. Now, there's an additional piece of information in the making, and it's basically an absolute identifier...
In mid-April 2000, the Japanese cabinet approved a bill banning human cloning in all aspects, including research, although it has not yet passed the diet. Punishment would be up to five years in prison. Problems posed were those of human dignity, social implications, and family...
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