Nacario's Digital Scrapbook

• ACT was made for three purposes, cloning stem cells for medicine, cloning cows for making medicine through milk, and cloning animals for cell and tissue transplants.
• The ACT's intentions are not to clone a human being, but to find cures for diseases such as AIDs and Alzheimer's.
• When cloning 30 cows, 24 turned out to be "normal" and these results have stirred up a controversy for some time.
  
• ACT claims that the 24 cows were clinically normal, being that the had no genetic defects or immune deficiencies.
  
• ACT released another statement telling the public their goals and interests which were; gene manipulation in animals for the purpose of genetic therapy of humans.
• This relates to our Cell Unit because it talks of cloning which to my knowledge would require stem cells. Stem cell research is a hot topic for cell research and I find it relevant to our units because of the vast capabilities of stem cells, which has lead to successful cloning.

Seeing this article makes me realize how long cloning has been going on. I thought for a long period of time that cloning was not existent. Hearing news of cloning makes me very intrigued in the matter, especially with all the protests that occur during these times in science research. This article tells me that ACT is using genetically engineered cows for the benefit of man kind, and I find that appropriate. However I feel doubtful because if we are cloning one cow, how do we know it is the best one? What if the host falls ill and all clones are susceptible? I do not think that cloning a single cow is very smart and I am positive that animal rights activists would step in and protest every way possible. If this cloning does work out and it does help cure terminal diseases, I will be sure to support its research if there are hard evidence of success.

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