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Re: a little help please!
Courtney ( 11/25/2003, 03:40:01 )Hey. I need some info too. If you get any could you please send it to me for my Grade 9 Science report. Here is some info that libfemme sent me.Cloning is the process our bodies use naturally to make new cells to repair injuries, to grow as children and to regenerate tissue. Your body is cloning, by mitosis, millions of new cells everyday. It is what you do naturally. If your body didn't clone your cells you couldn't survive for very long. Blood cells, for instance, only live for 120 days. You body needs to make new ones constantly. The method your body uses is to take a stem cell in your bone marrow and "clone" it. It then tells this new cloned cell to turn into a blood cell, to "differentiate" it is called.However, not all stem cells can regenerate tissue fast enough or well enough as we mature and age. What scientists are learning is how to reestablish that ability. By researching stem cells, cloning cells in a lab, scientists are trying to stimulate them to grow and become useful in repairing parts of the body that have lost the ability to do it on their own. Transplanted stem cells may be able to cure diabetes, Parkenson's disease and to heal damaged spinal cords.Actor's like Michael Fox who has Parkinson's Disease and Christopher Reeve who is paralyzed due to an accident could be cured by stem cells, also known as therapuetic cloning.It is the cells around the stem cell that tell it what kind of cell to become. If you implant stem cells in a damaged heart they will become healthy heart cells. If you implant the same stem cells in the brain they can be induced to become healthy brain cells and so on. And, and this is the controversial part, if you implant those same stem cells into a woman's womb the cells can be induced to become a baby.Stem cells are blank cells that can become any part of a body or an entire new individual. It depends on where they are implanted. If they are implanted in any part of a person's body and become new body cells it is called Therapuetic Cloning. If they are implanted in a womb and become a fetus it is called Reproductive Cloning. The reason in favor of reproductive cloning is because there are many couples in this world who want a family but are infertile. Just like any other disease or condition, infertility can be helped by medical treatment. Couples who cannot conceive naturally for one reason or another often can have a baby conceived in a lab, otherwise known as invitro fertilization. Fertility clinics exist around the world with doctors who specialize in fertility problems to help infertile couples have their own natural child. However, some infertile couples cannot benefit from even the current fertility procedures. If the woman has no viable eggs due to cancer, for example, or the man no viable sperm then there is nothing to use to "fertilize" in the lab. Reproductive cloning is a way of making an embryo without the necessity of a viable egg or sperm. It allows a couple, who would not otherwise be able to have a family of their own, to finally have a child that is genetically related to at least one of them.The reason in favor of therapuetic cloning is because people have a right to use their own cells to heal themselves. The reason to allow reproductive cloning is because people have a right to use their own cells to have children.Cloning is simply another medical procedureCourtney
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