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1.)Is cloning "unnatural"?
- bacteria/yeasts/snails/shrimps clone themselves (since 30 million years)
2.) Could clones be "farmed" to provide spare body parts for their "parent" clone without problems of tissue rejection?
- rejection can't be entirely excluded
- clone must be willing to donate
- transplanting a pig's heart is less dangerous
3.) Could people be cloned without conscious brains (so their body parts could be harvested with fewer moral qualms)?
- no clear definition of conscience
- one's genes don't contain information concerning conscience
4.) Could vital organs be grown using cloning without the rest of a body?
- in future it may become possible
- Dolly - first success in cloning mammals from adult cells
5.) Could cloning be used to create "super warriors" or super-intelligent people?
- theoratically it is possible (mixture of animal and human genes)
- ethical concerns hinder a further development on this sector
6.) Could cloning be used to save endangered species?
- possible, but success rate very low (Dolly: 1 to 276)
- probably females can give birth to close-related species (untested yet)
7.) Could cloning help gay couples to conceive and make men unneccessary for procreation?
- it would be possible to create a twin of one partner
- difficult to create a mixture of both partners' genes
8.) What about a Manhattan Project for human cloning?
- no federal Manhattan Project for cloning
- International Institute on Cloning (IIC) started research projects in different fields (pharmacy, reproducing DNA and tissues, cloning human beings)