Are sperm donations the same as human cloning?

It will pretty much look like one parent and it will have many of the same behavior predispositions as the one parent. But that ... Well, the question I have for people who worry about this star being cloned is to say to them, how often do you think a movie star has donated their sperm or eggs to a sperm bank today? read more

Parents with no eggs and sperm can create children that are genetically related. Same sex couples can have children without the use of donor sperm or donor eggs. The men would only require a surrogate to carry the clone until birth. read more

Cloning of humans would sidestep the traditional process of reproduction in which the male sperm fertilizes the female egg. Instead, it would create a person from an embryo by transplanting the DNA-containing nucleus of a cell from either a man or woman into a woman's egg from which the nucleus has been removed. read more

T he cloning of macaque monkeys in China makes human reproductive cloning more conceivable. At the same time, it confirms how difficult it would be to clone a random adult – Adolf Hitler, say – from a piece of their tissue. And it changes nothing in the debate about whether such human cloning should ever happen. read more