Cloning: Opening a Pandoras Box :: Genetic Engineering Essays

copy Opening a Pandoras BoxWhat dame is to biology can be likened to what nuclear bomb is to physics. And just like the latter, Dolly brings with it a military of controersies. Dolly redefined nature the same way Fat Man and atomic Boy redefined warfargon in 1945. The impact to the human civilisation is what makes some(prenominal) Dolly and nuclear physics so great, and controversial. It needs not pursue hold long for e veryone to realise the Pandoras box that Dolly has pried open, even for someone who knows cypher about biology like myself.Suddenly, terms like clones, DNA, biotech, life sciences and genes amongst galore(postnominal) other similar, once alien, terminologies seemed to appear everywhere in books, magazines, newspapers and television programmes. pre displacely thereafter, there were protests, debates and even legislations passed to restrict scientists/biologists/geneticists in their researches. Just what are the reasons bum the worlds infatuation over a sheep ?Dolly would not be conceived in nature-it is man-made, it is artificial and yet, it is real. Man had just promoted himself to be Dollys God. And being a mammal, Dolly opens up questions faster than anyone could possibly answer. The ability to create genetically like mammals, including humans, is the crux of the controversy revolving Dolly. Like nuclear physics, Dolly is a ambiguous sword. We have heard often enough the pros and cons of genetic-engineering techniques that are improved over time. But really, what are all these talks about ethics, rights and law expiry to amount to?The fact is that man is an inquisitive animal, an intelligent one at that. We have come to understand the change from day to night, we have sent man onto the moon, we have created enough nuclear bombs to blow up the very planet we live in 20 times over and we are inching towards unravelling and deciphering Gods instructions manual in the very near future. In my minor opinion, nothing is going to stop th e force of mans curious mind, not laws and by all odds not ethical considerations. Already, one Italian scientist, Dr. Severino Antinori, had openly claimed that he had successfully implanted a cloned human embryo into a human foster mother(1) .The implications of Dollys success are way beyond the medical realm. Commercially, Dolly sparked an effusion of new frontiers for those with an entrepreneurial mind. You want to slim down? We can take out your fatty genes. You want to have blond hair?