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
How do you think cloning cures disabilities and diseases? Nobody’s health is perfect, and if you clone them, you clone their congenital health problems too. Same is true of animal husbandry.
Also, I’m having trouble finding reference to it now, but I read way back then that something like 50+ malformed, disfigured and hopelessly non-sheep-like “things” were created before Dolly was successfully cloned. Most of these were (fortunately) put out of their misery when they were still quite young. Is that really the kind of experimentation we want to be doing as a society? I’m an Engineer, I love science and experimentation, but that sounds a lot closer to a torture chamber than a laboratory.
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