Cloning seems like it has the potential to cure disabilities and diseases, and also make farming easier. With so many potential uses why is it that nothing major has happened since Dolly the sheep?
In: 1789
1. That cloned sheep got hit with the symptoms of aging much earlier in life than a naturally-born sheep, and eventually died of cancer.
2. A lot of agriculturally grown plants are clones. Cloning plants is very easy.
3. We use animal cloning all the time in research with cloned mice and cloned cells of various organisms including humans.
4. Cloning isn’t really there yet to be cheaper or easier than breeding livestock, and it’s not obvious if it ever will be, since livestock practically breeds itself.
5. Cloning not there yet for growing organs for transplants, although people are working on it and there’s plenty of progress.
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