There are many ways in which in which human cloning is expected to benefit
mankind.
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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 |