The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned by somatic cell nuclear transfer. If the successful cloning of human beings, is momentous: Even if the technique is used only in pursuit of biological …show more content…
Some of the cons of human cloning are; (1) risk faster aging, (2) interferes with nature, (3) bring forth a reduced sense of individuality, (4) cause divide among people, (5) might decrease the overall value of human life, (6) against religious ethics, (7) might be used for exploitation, (8) a lot of failure, (9) completely wrong idea for a lot of people. An international group of scientists announced in the June 6 Cell—a prominent, peer-reviewed scientific journal—that they created scores of cloned human embryos, developing four of them in a dish for about 10 days to the blastocyst stage (about 150-200 cells). This is the stage at which embryos created in vitro are usually implanted if they are to be gestated to birth. (Smith,