Human kind has always reached out for the comfort of beauty and aesthetics in every aspect of life. This is evident by the fact that even the most basic needs for human survival, such as food, clothing, and shelter, have been elevated to an art form right through human history. Indeed, who...

Vicente Pio Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Vicente Aleixandre) was a Spanish poet that was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1977. Aleixandre was born in Seville, Spain on 26 April 1898. His father, Cirilo Aleixander Ballester, was a civil engineer and was said to have come from a fam...

Cloning has literally crossed the limits of exploitation of nature, by the human race. For centuries man has been producing, so called solutions to the problems it has, which in turn produce even greater problems. Cloning is one of the them. The most important reason for getting so much help in t...

Today in the age of fast, efficient computer technology is there still a need for the animal testing methods used hundreds of years ago? Many scientist and doctors, including Nobel Prize winners, say yes, because it is the only way to view what happens to a whole living body without risking any har...

Webster's Dictionary defines the word cloning, as a noun: A cell, group of cells, or organism that are descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor, such as a bacterial colony whose members arose from a single original cell, or an organism descended asexually from a single an...

On February 22, 1996, Ian Wilmut brought cloning of animals to our attention, when the first animal was successfully cloned, on that history-making day the cloned sheep named Dolly was born. Wilmut took a cell from the udder of a six-year -old ewe and sparked a jolt of electricity to fuse it to the...

Human Cloning What if you were able to pick your child? Imagine just looking through a beauty magazine and pointing a finger, saying, "That's the one", and 9 months later the person that you have picked is born. This concept is not that far out of reach. In the near future a woma...

With rumours swirling of the scientific possibility of cloning a human life and a religious cult claiming it already has, one has to ask: are we ready to begin cloning? More importantly, do we have the right to recreate human life or "play God," as some people put it. Human cloning is th...

Medical research is a lengthy process that involves numerous undertakings. Without taking the risks and paying the costs, new findings would not be accomplished. Animal research has been especially beneficial to the field of medicine. Testing on animals should be accepted in the world of scientific ...

We have seen comic material in the movies and on television. The entertainment industry usually shows it in a humorous situation such as Danny Devito and Arnold Schwannager as genetically engineered twins while Michael Keaton was duplicated to make his life easier. Cloning is only achieved after int...

"The Loman Family and Their 'Problems of the Spirit.' In his 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner lamented the dearth of "problems of the spirit" in modern literature and pointed out the importance of "the old universal truths...love and honor and...

We have seen comic material in the movies and on television. The entertainment industry usually shows it in a humorous situation such as Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzennager as genetically engineered twins while Michael Keaton was duplicated to make his life easier. Cloning is only achieved afte...

For the Good of Man or Animal?Imagine a world without chemotherapy, organ transplants, joint replacements, and antibiotics. These are just a few of medical wonders developed through animal research. Animal research has been a heated discussion for the past fifty years. Some argue that the researc...

Genetic Engineering Anti-technologists and political extremists misinform, and over exaggerate statements that genetic engineering is not part of the natural order of things. The moral question of genetic engineering can be answered by studying human evolution and the idea of survival of the fittes...