omatic cell nuclear transfer to successfully clone a sheep. After the cloning of the first sheep in Scotland the world of cloning increased in great numbers. Currently scientists around the world have succeed in cloning sheep, goats, cows, pigs, and dozens of mice over six generations from a single mouse. (Desire 11) Cloning a human in almost all regards is done the same way the first sheep, Dolly, was cloned. The goal of the human cloning process is to show that the DNA in the adult nucleus could essentially be tricked into dividing and otherwise behaving like a brand-new fertilized egg. The next step would be to implant the embryo in the uterus of a surrogate mother. Since the nucleus of each cell in the body contains the genetic instructions for the whole, the resulting offspring is one that shares an identical genotype with the original, a clone. (Desire 10) This is how human cloning would work, by the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer. For a group like the Raelians to have a chance a completing the task of successfully cloning a human they are going to need access to a lot off eggs, and that exactly what they have. At the current time the Raelians supposedly have over fifty young female volunteering as egg donors and surrogate mothers. The need for such great numbers of donors and surrogates is because when cloning the only two to three out every hundred attempts to clone an animal results in a living offspring. With so many women offering their eggs and wombs the Raelians have to be taken seriously. When you look at what would be critically required to clone a human being, surrogates and a large number of eggs are key ingredients, and the Raelians have those, said Gregory Stock, the director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at U.C.L.A.s School of Medicine. They certainly have whats necessary to make a solid attempt. Besides, said Stock, what theyre doing is of symbolic significance. If they dont s...
