Sentences with phrase «although human cloning»

Although human cloning could generate a troop of people who look just like you, the clones won't be your age unless they were cloned right after you were conceived.

In this context, many scientists feel that, although human cloning may be possible, it would be wrong.

Not exact matches

Although genes are recognized as influencing behavior and cognition, «genetically identical» does not mean altogether identical; almost no one would deny that identical twins, despite being natural human clones with identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether overlapping personalities.

BAC, however, calls for an outright ban on human reproductive cloning and affirms that scientists caught doing so would face the full force of the law, although final details of penalties for offenders have not been spelled out.

As for the possible use of cloning to produce copies of humans, most ethicists» initial reaction is that such an action would be unconscionable — although in the U.S., unlike in the U.K. and many other nations, it is not explicitly illegal.

The law banned human cloning, although after a review in 2005 the law was amended the next year to allow therapeutic cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer.

Although Kato called human reproductive cloning directly from iPS cell lines «very hypothetical,» he pointed out progress for that possibility when he noted that three teams had produced mouse clones from iPS cells.

The result suggests that, although Hwang deceived the world about achieving the first human cloning, his group was first to succeed in performing human parthenogenesis, which may offer a way of creating cells that are genetically matched to a woman for transplantation back into her body to treat degenerative diseases.

Ian Wilmut believes that it technically possible to carry out human cloning, although it is unacceptable, because of moral, ethical and legal issues related to the manipulation of human embryos.