2011 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript

This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2011. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.

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Are we ever going to save lives with cloning?      Robin Troxell, M.S., C.G.C.: I am a pediatric and prenatal genetic counselor. I have a special interest in perinatal hospice. We are not going to save a person's life by cloning, or duplicating, that individual. However, cloning techniques are used in research today in stem cell therapies that are able to save lives - bone marrow transplants for babies with some genetic conditions such as SCID and Krabbe, for example. Palms Middle School in CA (7th grade student)

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