To make a clone, scientists transfer the DNA from an animal's somatic cell into an egg cell that has had its nucleus and DNA removed. The egg develops into an embryo that contains the same genes as the cell donor. Then the embryo is implanted into an adult female's uterus to grow. Human cell-line colony being cloned in vitro through use of cloning rings. Credit: Bob Walker-Jacopo Werther. In the end, the possibility of obtaining human clones would only pose a conflict with some social-ethical principles: the right to be a result of fate, the principle that human beings are ends, and not means, etc. DNA cloning is the process of making multiple, identical copies of a particular piece of DNA. In a typical DNA cloning procedure, the gene or other DNA fragment of interest (perhaps a gene for a medically important human protein) is first inserted into a circular piece of DNA called a plasmid. For a list of my awesome science videos by Category visit DavidBirdScience.comIn this video I discuss what cloning is and how it is done. It is likely biologically possible to clone a human being, but putting ethics aside, the shear number of resources needed to do it successfully would serve as a significant barrier. Nevertheless, it can be expected that human cloning gets approved as a treatment only following the assured safety of the procedure. (Steinbock, 2015). John A. Robertson is a prominent bioethicist who has taken an initiative towards advocating the futuristic reproductive technologies and human cloning. Robertson supports the use of IVF ­If human reproductive cloning proceeds, the primary method scientists will likely use is somatic ce­ll nuclear transfer (SCNT), which is the same procedure that was used to create Dolly the sheep. Somatic cell nuclear transfer begins when doctors take the egg from a female donor and remove its nucleus, creating an enucleated egg . It would be theoretically possible to clone humans, but, to date, there are no records of an actual fully developed human ever being cloned, Live Science reported. The closest we have come to this is the 1997 cloning of our closet relative: the monkey . Not only is cloning inefficient and dangerous, there's just not a good enough reason to make a human this way. But making e more more We've technically been able to clone human beings Dom Burgess investigates whether we could clone humans in the future and the current state of artificial and reproductive cloning processes. t8RZisJ.