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In my class ,
with our teacher, we have read "Brave New World".
This book was
written by Huxley and it telly of a perfect world where all the
people aren't "created", but are " made".
In the book
there are many and many themes that we can analize, for axample
the description of world state, manipulation af mind, drugs and
famyly in BNW and in our society.
One of thes
themes in the human cloning and I have chosen to analize this,
because, in my opinion,it is shell very very topical in all the
story, from the forst page to the end, the theme is always shown.
In fact the
novel written by Huxley starts with the description of a great
building where the workers " made the people with a long and
complicated process.
This idea
isn't utopian because, presently there are many scientists that
are trying to make clones.
In byology
the clone is made by two processes.
The first
process is called "multiple copies of DNA's segments"
and is uses the duplication capacity of virus and plasmides.
The second
process is called " PCR" and it is more complicated then
the first process. Itwas carried out in 1983 and with this, in a
few hours a small segment of DNA was synthesized in a million
copyes.
In particular
I have seen the case of Dolly. Creating Dolly was not iosy.
Using
techniques simile to those used 20 years ago by Gurdon, Bill Ritch,
a technican who was marking with Dr Campbell, removed the nucleus
from in oocyte that was collected from a scottish Blackface ewe.
Oocytes have
a "shell"of proteins and fibres and it is through this
protective coat that Bill injected the nucleus from a quiscent
mammary cell into the enucleated oocyte.That cell was from a
different breed of sheep called a Finn Dorset,which happens to be
a pure white breed sheep.
He then used
a tiny pulse of electricity to cause the new nucleus to fusse whit
the enucleated oocyte' s cytoplasm.
This
electricity also helps "kick start" cells into "activity
so day are more likely to divide".
This new,
fused cell was trasformed into the reproductive "chamber"
of a blackface ewe.
After 148
days dolly was born but the experiment was repeated 276 times
because there were some problems in embryo transfers, infact the
tranfer didn't always work. The embryos may die for varius
reasons.
At firs dolly
was a normal sheep and it was ealth but in a second time her
organism didn't "work".
The issue of
cloning has always been around in our every day lives.
Cloning was
common in movies such as Jurassic Park, were cloning seemed to be
an idea of fantasy and not reality.
The idea that
scientistity could just take a bit of DNA from a dead mosquito and
turn it into something that could tower over a skyscroper was
every intriguing to most people.
However,
these movies are just movies.
It wasn't
until dolly, who was acknowledged to be the first cloned mammal,
was cloned and conceived that cloning became an actual reality.
In my opinion
cloning is very, very, very, very important for human life.
The most
relevant reasons is its medical value .
There are
already drug and medicine manufactures all over the world who are
working on products that can be produced caws milk or even sheep
or goat milk when the trait is cloned.
Right now
they are trying to produce vaccines against malaria, antibiotics
against HIV, as well as proteins to treat hemophilia, muscle
diseasly, internal intestinal infections, rheumataid arthritis,
cystic fibrosis and emphysema.
None of these
treatments wold be possible in the future if cloning were banned.
for example
consider a couple who is married. They have done everything
possible to try to coceive a child.
However, it's
just not medically possible. a fertility clime tells them about
the option of cloning and they are intrigued and want to hear
more. they hear both the positive and negative reasons whythey
should or shouldn't consider cloning.They decide to do it. They
spore no medical expenses because they have always wanted a schild.
Should they be condemned? who is to decide? If there is no other
way and they have heard both sides of the argument, there is
nothing wrong whit it. They are still going to raise that child as
their own with it. They are still going to raise that child as
their own with no regarsa to how he or she was concrived.
In addition,
scientists will most likely find a way to save endengered
species using the benefits of cloning. There are many species of
wild life animals such as "white tigee", wich are
endangered.
Scientists
can clone more of these animals and reintroduce them book into the
wild life. But animals isn't anly the ones who are endangered.
There are several plant species, wich are also endangered.
Cloning is
unnatural and it goes against God's natural pan of live but it's
also true taht God madeus who we are, and to envolve and think.
Therefore one way of Thinking is that God gave us the Knowledge to
make cloning a reality and therefore it's part of God's natural
plan.
Proia
Pierluigi
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