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As politicians debate the ethics of human cloning, Blockbuster decided to find out how Americans would use this new technology. The answer: one order of Brad Pitt with Jennifer Lopez on the side.
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Biological cloning is the process of creating a genetically identical copy of another living being, be it human, plant, or animal. Clones can occur both naturally and unnaturally through advances in technology. Clones occur naturally during the asexual reproduction of some organisms and unicellular micro-organisms, or when two genetically identical individuals are produced accidentally, as when two identical twins develop from one single fertilized egg.
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Even if human cloning can be accomplished scientifically (which is no sure thing), it will take many years for the technology to become usable as a medical product. In the meantime, cloning research is a black hole, insatiably sucking investments in but yielding no returns.
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In the November 25, 2001, issue of the Journal of Regenerative Medicine, a US company Advanced Cell Technology claimed that it had successfully created a clone of a human, in the form of an embryo. ACT vice president Dr. Robert Lanza said that the company's intention was to use this in therapeutic cloning, in order to harvest embryonic stem cells from a patient.
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