Legal and Moral Aspects of Cloning

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Cloning as Biotechnology has many legal and ethical aspects. In studying the ethics of gene therapy, one should make a distinction between therapy on the somatic (non reproductive) cells and the germ (reproductive) cells of an individual. In the present article, definitions of cloning and its using in research and curing of diseases has been studied. This paper primarily deals with the legal and moral aspects of cloning.

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