Cloning Animals

Here is yet another amazing clone done recently by scientists. The topic is:

CLONING A PIG

Earlier in time, there was a point in science when cloning animals was obsurd, and too technilogically advanced. Everyone imagined us wearing space suits and flying around in hovercars by the time we reached the year 2000. People thought cloning was never going to happen. It is now 2007 and cloning is being more experimented with than ever. Everyone knows Dolly, the famous cloned sheep. Scientists are currently experimenting cloning more than ever now. Recently, a pig was cloned by a group of scientists. Her name is Xenga, named after the type of field of research they used to clone her in; xenotransplantation. That may seem like a big word but it just means that it is " any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation, or infusion into a human recipient of either (a) live cells, tissues, or organs from a nonhuman animal source, or (b) human body fluids, cells, tissues or organs that have had ex vivo contact with live nonhuman animal cells, tissues or organs" Xena is not the only or first piglet cloned into the world by science however, she is one of the most recent. I feel the same about cloning as I do with Designer Babies (See article down). I feel that nature should not be tampered with this way. When an organism is cloned, it is usually born with disorders or is not healthy in a certain way. I think that this is torture to make any animal live with that condition.

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ABC News Website

Xenotransplantation Defenition