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
Cloning is only one result from a set of knowledge and technology involving manipulating how organisms mature and grow from a single cell.
Honestly, cloning sheep is pretty useless considering I can make a new sheep the old fashioned way for free (given 2 sheep).
BUT we are making tremendous progress in other forms of growing “custom” organisms. For example we just genetically modified and then grew viable pigs with such human-like organs that we had 2 successful pig-human heart transplants. Seriously this was like a month ago. Who cares about a cloned sheep when you grow custom transplant organs at will for whoever needs them?
Not dissing clone, it’s just that it’s missing the achievement (advanced genetic manipulation) from the result (another sheep).
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