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Should we learn to clone body parts?

Should we learn to clone human body parts?

  • Yes

    Votes: 27 93.1%

  • No

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 1 3.4%
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Luna Tick

Luna Tick

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Should we develop the science of cloning human body parts? Mind you, I don't mean the cloning of an entire human being, just organs. The advantages would be vast. If someone has a bad heart, liver, lung, kidney, or some other organ, it would be possible to grow and transplant a replacement, which is genetically designed for that person. There would be no anti-rejection drugs needed. We also would not have to wait for someone to die who has donated an organ.

However, cloning is scary. Are we being like a Dr. Frankenstein here?
 
Luna Tick said:
Should we develop the science of cloning human body parts? Mind you, I don't mean the cloning of an entire human being, just organs. The advantages would be vast. If someone has a bad heart, liver, lung, kidney, or some other organ, it would be possible to grow and transplant a replacement, which is genetically designed for that person. There would be no anti-rejection drugs needed. We also would not have to wait for someone to die who has donated an organ.

However, cloning is scary. Are we being like a Dr. Frankenstein here?
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I will show you mine if you show me your.
 
If we can pull off cloning for more then a few months (or whatever the longest we've had a cloned organ/animal survive) then sure. It'll save lives, and it will allow us to explore now fields of medicine.

If we can perfect it.

Just a question though. Say someone needs a new heart due to heart disease. Wouldn't it be, in this case, counterproductive to clone the sick heart, and give the person that clone? We would end up making minute changes in the DNA to make the new clone more efficient, right? Otherwise thats just a band-aid solution...
 
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Luna Tick said:
Should we develop the science of cloning human body parts? Mind you, I don't mean the cloning of an entire human being, just organs. The advantages would be vast. If someone has a bad heart, liver, lung, kidney, or some other organ, it would be possible to grow and transplant a replacement, which is genetically designed for that person. There would be no anti-rejection drugs needed. We also would not have to wait for someone to die who has donated an organ.

However, cloning is scary. Are we being like a Dr. Frankenstein here?
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Hell yes we should. Imagine being able to grow perfect body parts to replace war injuries or birth defects, with no chance of rejection and no need to remain on immunosuppressors for the rest of your life.

Hell yes we should.






...that said, how about designer body parts ;)
 
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If it can be done ethically, yes. By which I mean no living humans or viable embyos come to harm. We've apparently got a few more issues to solve before this is feasible though.

I would be against cloning whole humans for body parts, of course.
 
Luna Tick said:
Should we develop the science of cloning human body parts? Mind you, I don't mean the cloning of an entire human being, just organs. The advantages would be vast. If someone has a bad heart, liver, lung, kidney, or some other organ, it would be possible to grow and transplant a replacement, which is genetically designed for that person. There would be no anti-rejection drugs needed. We also would not have to wait for someone to die who has donated an organ.

However, cloning is scary. Are we being like a Dr. Frankenstein here?
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Frankenstein took old (dead) parts and made a person (well, a "creature"). Seems like this is the opposite.
 
repeter said:
If we can pull off cloning for more then a few months (or whatever the longest we've had a cloned organ/animal survive) then sure. It'll save lives, and it will allow us to explore now fields of medicine.

If we can perfect it.

Just a question though. Say someone needs a new heart due to heart disease. Wouldn't it be, in this case, counterproductive to clone the sick heart, and give the person that clone? We would end up making minute changes in the DNA to make the new clone more efficient, right? Otherwise thats just a band-aid solution...
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It depends on the reasons the heart was sick. If it became ill due to the environment such as smoking, poor diet, too much alcohol, then the cloned heart would be fine (until the person ruined it with bad habits again, which hopefully he or she would not do this time around). If the heart was sick due to a genetic defect, then you're correct. I clone would just be another defective heart unless we could somehow alter the code to correct the defect.
 
Luna Tick said:
It depends on the reasons the heart was sick. If it became ill due to the environment such as smoking, poor diet, too much alcohol, then the cloned heart would be fine (until the person ruined it with bad habits again, which hopefully he or she would not do this time around). If the heart was sick due to a genetic defect, then you're correct. I clone would just be another defective heart unless we could somehow alter the code to correct the defect.
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I really don't know enough about organ transplants to know the answer to this, but if we change the DNA sequence of the clone heart, taking away the genetic heart disease problem, will that still require the anti-rejection medication?
 
Absolutely we should, assuming we can do it perfectly. There's nothing scary about cloning whatsoever, it's just one of many things we ought to be working on.
 
Hatuey said:
Dr. Frankenstein didn't clone...
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True...he more or less stiched some random vaguely matching body parts from multiple humans together.
 
My wife had most of her upper arm removed because of cancer. She is in pain every single day. She cannot work and cannot drive, and is essentially handicapped.

If there was a way to clone a new muscle for her and give her her life back again, I would do anything.
 
Groucho said:
My wife had most of her upper arm removed because of cancer. She is in pain every single day. She cannot work and cannot drive, and is essentially handicapped.

If there was a way to clone a new muscle for her and give her her life back again, I would do anything.
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then I hope this happens very soon, I wish your wife well, and you be strong for her.
 
Luna Tick said:
Should we develop the science of cloning human body parts? Mind you, I don't mean the cloning of an entire human being, just organs. The advantages would be vast. If someone has a bad heart, liver, lung, kidney, or some other organ, it would be possible to grow and transplant a replacement, which is genetically designed for that person. There would be no anti-rejection drugs needed. We also would not have to wait for someone to die who has donated an organ.

However, cloning is scary. Are we being like a Dr. Frankenstein here?
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They already are 'growing' body parts.

REPLACEMENT PARTS

Today, tissue engineered skin, the first so-called "neo-organ" approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, comes to the aid of burn victims and patients with severe skin sores or ulcers. In the not-too-distant future, lab-grown cartilage and bone could relieve arthritis sufferers, while blood vessels, cardiac valves and muscle tissue could save thousands of cardiovascular disease patients. Ultimately, custom-made hearts, livers, breasts, corneas, kidneys, bone marrow and bladders could offer elegant solutions to most life-threatening illnesses.

PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:The Bionic Body:The Body Shop

"Human ear" being grown on a host:

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Absolutely yes. Thousands of people die each year becasue they were on organ donation lists and couldn't get organs fast enough. Who knows how many more die because they were rejected for an organ transplant in the first place. If we made organ cloning fast and cheap enough that would stop happening.
 
If we could really clone and replace body parts, then the body would never wear out, would it? Just keep replacing parts, and the body keeps going on forever just like an old classic car. Maybe science could even learn to improve on parts, so that the individual will get stronger and fitter, maybe even smarter, like that old classic car with a modern engine.

I'm for it. I've already got a few parts that are showing some wear and tear.
 
Luna Tick said:
Should we learn to clone body parts?
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ABSOLUTELY - the parasites who control governmnts today are already doing it for them selves, they just don't consider us as equal, and not all of us are in fact humans, but neither are most of them.
 
rytis said:
ABSOLUTELY - the parasites who control governmnts today are already doing it for them selves
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I was not aware of this. To my knowledge this science is in its infancy, not ready to be used by the public.

rytis said:
they just don't consider us as equal
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Mmmm...and why have politicians fought for equality? (especially at times that it was not 'politically' smart to do so, i.e. wouldn't garner votes)

rytis said:
and not all of us are in fact humans, but neither are most of them.
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Why? are these your friends?
:monkey:kitty::monkeyarm:aliens1::bunny:
 
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