rownoutside the body using the patient's own DNA and used in a transplant without fear ofrejection. This will eliminate the need for anti-rejection drugs and provide for a healthierrecovery. Simple tissues such as skin cells have already been cloned in laboratories foruse in skin grafts for burn victims. Other things that have been cloned include bloodclotting factors for hemophiliacs, and plans to create specialized nerve cells to repairbrain damage have begun.Another possible medical advance that could be developed further throughcloning research is the early diagnosis and even the curing of genetic diseases such asdiabetes and heart disease. A method called gene therapy is being developed by where asolution is injected into the patient; once inside, the solution alters the area of the DNAwhere the disease is and fixes the problem. Diabetes is a disease in which the cellscannot accept sugars from the blood without the help of insulin from either injection ororal pills. Diabetics could undergo gene therapy, and insulin could start being producednaturally again. Other products that are needed by humans could be artificially producedby animals through cloning and genetic engineering. Genes from humans that producenecessary proteins, for example, could be included in the animal DNA so that the animalwould produce that protein in its milk or blood. The protein could then be extracted andused in human treatments for various diseases or disorders.This could also lead to a prevention and or cure for AIDS and cancer. A fewpeople have successfully continued to live with AIDS or cancer, and in some cases thedisease has gone away. Part of their genetic structure has strengthened the immunesystem to the point that it rids the body of these diseases. Their genes could be used ingene therapy and help to strengthen others immune systems so they too could rid theirbodies of these diseases.Genetic defects could also be cured with cloning ...
