Hi there!
Intruguing topic indeed! Human Cloning? Act of playing God?!

Let's start off with cloning, shall we? I'm not talking about Hybrid Cloning but Reproductive Cloning. I would stand behind it as it is essential for HUMAN BEINGS for infertility (barren; for those that needs biblical narrative) purpose.

Have yu heard of Dolly the Sheep? Much complexities came from the experimentations. How would yu stand for it? I'm pretty much for it. GE (Genetically Engineered) products? Anyone? Hello??!! We had those hybrid cloning back in the early 90s, for Christ sake.
Do yu need it? ~!@#$%^&* YES!

Regards, Joey

p.s: Religious understanding and practices are OUT OF THE WINDOW please.

This post has been edited by Joey Christensen: Jun 22 2009, 02:25 PM

Hi there!

As much complexities as in a human anatomy, the complexities of therapeutic cloning has yield different proportions.

Okie...Let's start off with, for an example, I got some tissues/organs damage resulting from mountain biking in the wilderness. In order to get a quick fix or to accelerate this "healing" of the said damaged tissues/organs, I need the whole tissue to be transplanted in my damage area of tissues/organs. (Let's just say I'm using the possibility of therapeutic cloning in stem cells)

However, there's alwaiz a catch! (I hate this part but it's unavoidable, so pardon me, eh?). Let's say I got the cloned tissues/organs in place,prior to my unfortunate incident. Before I could transplanted it in, I need to make sure the cells are functioning and grow "coordinately in term of "signals" sending. (Synapses? Per se) This needs not the cloned embryos, it can all be done with the existing OR newly created cell lines.

As mentioned, this requires the stem cell MUST "coordinate in parallel with the "existing cells as it is required for the body to function properly and "naturally". With the surrounding tissues/organs influencing the stem cell to "work in tandem" properly and "naturally", it is remained as questionable as yu and me.

As much as I hate it, the process is numb minded and the whole ~!@#$%^&* delicate processes MUST BE TAKEN into consideration. I'd hate to be in the shoes of the scientists/researchers involved in therapeutic cloning. It has yet to be answered and hopefully with the advancement of Bio Technology we will able to achieve a breakthrough in this area.

It is very well known that Therapeutic Cloning is the next step in Bio Technology and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for it. As the time comes, I said it as it presumably would, it will be used in reproductive cloning.

Furthermore, from this breakthrough, the potential for abuse and exploitation are just too great to ignore. (IVF to create babies? Anyone?) It's up for grabs and it is the responsibility of HUMANS to address the implementations accordingly.

Regards, Joey

p.s: The SCIENTISTS are equivalent to creeps in DotA and they are being farmed by capitalists/capital dogs a.k.a Heroes in DotA. What says yu regarding this particular issue?

This post has been edited by Joey Christensen: Jun 22 2009, 05:31 PM