just wondering i was watching a movie and is it possible for humans to be cloned yet because it seems we have come so far with science such as the 3D printer and other ingenious things i was just wondering ( i know a bit of a dumb question
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Yes and no. We can't create clones from machines like sci-fi movies but we can replace the DNA of an unborn fetus with someone else's DNA. But we won't have identical twin of the clowned person but we can have another person with the same blood type and organic characteristic... However it's forbidden to clone people (because of the ''mother nature have rights too'' activists) but in the future we may be able to put human DNA in animals so we can havrest organs from them and give it to humans. Long story short, we have the ability to clone people but we can't 'cause it's illegal
In 1997 a sheep named Dolly made headlines around the world. She was the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult cell, taken from a ewe’s mammary gland. Dolly became a younger “twin” to the sheep from which the cell was taken.
Since Dolly, scientists have cloned dozens of individual animals—all from adult cells. Can the same technology be used to clone adult humans? Yes, say some biologists they say the same technology can be used to clone humans. Not yet. Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly, points out that cloning is presently “a very inefficient procedure,” producing a death rate among fetuses that is about ten times higher than in natural reproduction.
Some wonder, ‘What if someone were to perfect the technique and cloned, say, multiple Hitlers?’ In an effort to allay such fears, Wilmut points out that while a cloned child would be a genetically identical twin of the person from whom it was cloned, a cloned human would be influenced by its environment and would develop a distinct personality just as natural twins do
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