Why create a clone?
There are certain fertility problems that could make cloning a couple’s only option if they wanted to have a baby that is genetically related to one of them. Thats why University of Kentucky researcher Panayiotis Zavos and Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori say they want to clone human beings. The company Clonaid, an entity created by the religious sect the Raelians, says it wants to clone humans because they were directed to by space aliens. Raelians believe cloning is how life on Earth began. In the case of cloning to make stem cells, scientists say that technique might be the only way to make stem cells that can actually be used therapeutically. As for cloning animals, scientists see that as an easy way to insert genes into animals. Cloning doesn’t have to be done with a fresh cell taken from an adult animal. It can be done with cells that have been taken from an animal and then grown in the laboratory. Scientists are pretty good at inserting genes into cells growing in
