What purpose would clones have in medical research? What exactly is the point in doing it?

Perpetuity, I would imagine. Maybe the spare parts thing, too, but I would have major difficulties having someone who looked exactly like me, chopped up ,would you? No matter how much I needed their organs.

What purpose would clones have in medical research? What exactly is the point in doing it?
No purpose whatso ever. And the point...cos they can.
Reply:Because it makes the experiment easier to control. When you conduct any kind of experiment, you're usually interested in how some kind of treatment affects a test system. In order to do that, you want the groups of test organisms to be treated the same way, and as similar as possible. Using cloned animals or plants in experiments allows scientists to draw conclusions about how effective a treatment might be, without having the effects of differences between individual test organisms confounding the results.





For example, if you want to test the effects of three different types of drugs against liver tumors in mice, you would have three groups of mice, all with the same tumors. Each group would be exposed to one of the test drugs for a certain period of time, then the results would be measured. Each group receives identical treatment, except for the drug being given (i.e. same housing conditions, same food etc.) Using genetically identical test subjects would ensure that any differences between the three drugs are due to the drugs themselves, and not some other factors associated with differences between individuals.
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Reply:They will be used for spare parts. I suppose i could have said it in the nicer more politically correct way, but Truth is truth no matter how much you dress it up.
Reply:Ok so its not really the production of clones that is important but the knowledge gained when doing it so things such as imprinting and epigenetics are the obstacles that need to be overcome for cloning to be successful which at the moment it isnt ( only 1 in 1000 cloning experiments work which colud be put down to chance) understanding in this area leads to the ability to cure many developmental diseases which result due to imprinting difficiencies. Im sure when the genetics is understod better cloning will be come more judgement than luck and many uses will emerge that many not be obvious at the moment. Population genticists use clones in there studies to map environmental effects monozygotic twins are clones dont forget and the data from monzygotic twins has proven usefull