Therapeutic Cloning Case Study

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Creative Title What if theretheir was a way to cure humans by cloning an replica of any body part?. Therapeutic cloning is taking an embryo and extracting the nucleus and transferring it to a human. Therapeutic cloning could help people in many ways because it could help people get new organs and it could help paraplegics. Although, therapeutic cloning is a good idea reproductive cloning would leave children in foster homes. Therapeutic cloning could help people get new organs or help repair injuries. For example if someone gets their hand amputated they can clone a new one. The hand would be new and they will have a chance to reattach it. Another example would be if someone needed a kidney transplant, they could

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