Potential Benefits of Human Cloning

There are many ways in which in which human cloning is expected to benefit mankind.
 
 
1 Human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged. Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialized countries.
2 There has been a breakthrough with human stem cells. Embryonic stem cells can be grown to produce organs or tissues to repair or replace damaged ones. Skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, spinal cord cells for quadriplegics and paraplegics, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys could be produced. By combining this technology with human cloning technology it may be possible to produce needed tissue for suffering people that will be free of rejection by their immune systems. Conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart failure, degenerative joint disease, and other problems may be made curable if human cloning and its technology are not banned. 
3 Infertility - infertile couples can have children 
4 Down's syndrome - those women at high risk for Down's syndrome can avoid that risk by cloning 
5 Tay-Sachs disease - sex linked genetic disorders could be prevented by using cloning to ensure the sex of a baby and possibly could be cured 
6 Liver failure - we may be able to clone livers for liver transplants 
7 Kidney failure - we may be able to clone kidneys for kidney transplants 
8 Leukemia - we should be able to clone the bone marrow for children and adults suffering from leukemia. This is expected to be one of the first benefits to come from cloning technology. 
9 Cancer - we may learn how to switch cells on and off through cloning and thus be able to cure cancer. 
10 Cystic fibrosis - we may be able to produce effective genetic therapy against cystic fibrosis. Ian Wilmut and colleagues are already working on this problem. 
11 Spinal cord injury - we may learn to grow nerves or the spinal cord back again when they are injured. Quadriplegics might be able to get out of their wheelchairs and walk again. 
12 Testing for genetic disease - cloning technology can be used to test for and perhaps cure genetic diseases 

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David Schneider, schned2@rpi.edu, http://www.rpi.edu/~schned2/index.html