Resumen

RODRIGUEZ PARGAS, Ayní; JUNCO BARRANCO, Jesús Arturo; RODRIGUEZ PARGAS, Aymed de la C  y  DE LA CRUZ CARDOSO, María Antonia. Ethic implications of transgenesis and cloning. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2003, vol.3, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1727-8120.

Even though Biotechnology is as old as the invention of wine and beer fermentation by men, it experiences an important take off in the 60s, with the development of molecular biology techniques and cloning of strange genes in unicellular organisms, and the emergence of the first recombinant medications. In the decade of 1980 and 1990, surprising results in transgenesis of animals and plants are obtained and by the end of the century cloning or generation of identical animals starting from somatic cells is carried out. In this work the opportunities and risks of transgenesis and cloning are analyzed critically taking into account the current ethical perspective, keeping in mind the threat of cloned beings, the social responsibility of scientists, the polarization of the international scientific system and moral codes, as well as the Cuban science professionals ' ethics that responds to the principle that the future of our homeland is necessarily a future of science men

Palabras clave : ETHICS; CLONING ORGANISM.

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