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The ethical questions surronding gene therapy and therapeutic cloning. This hold potential great benefits to medicine, but the technology isn't fully developed and there are ethical questions about cloning humans only to destroy the tissue for medical research.
"Human cloning will be done whether we like it or not, we should accept it, make it legal, regulate it and make sure it is done in a responsible, scientifically correct way."-Panayiotis Zavos (Hansen, Brian "Cloning Debate" The CQ Researcher Online) One of the most controversial topics of today is the fate of cloning, genetic manipulation, and stem cell research. These fall in to the relatively new scientific field of microbiology, or gene therapy. This field has the potential to cure many currently incurable diseases by tweaking with the bases of human life, our genes. Our genes hold "the code to life", DNA, which was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick, since the discovery of which the field of microbiology has expanded greatly, from the isolation of the first gene to the completion of the.....
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