What are the benefits of therapeutic cloning?

Therapeutic cloning offers several significant benefits. 

• The newly generated stem cells can be used to generate almost any cell type, which is useful for treating injured, dysfunctional, or diseased cells. 
• There is tremendous potential to use this procedure extensively for developing replacement tissue, a technique that’s crucial for the treatment of disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.  
• Therapeutic cloning is the feasible way to generate any tissue or organ, which can be used to treat a wide range of disorders and illnesses. Fresh skin, generated externally by therapeutic cloning, can be used to graft onto a patient with severe burns. Healthy tissues and organs can be grown outside the human body to replace damaged or diseased ones, which helps to overcome the obstacles of longer wait times due to unavailability of a replacement organ. 
• There is minimum risk of tissue rejection after a transplant using therapeutic cloning because the replacement organ is the exact match with the recipient. 
• With therapeutic cloning, researchers can guide the cells into developing a particular type of tissue, depending on the patient’s needs. For example, it facilitates the creation of a new liver to replace one destroyed by cirrhosis. This can be done with minimum adverse effects. 
• Researchers can use therapeutic cloning to treat genetic disorders by manipulating genetic sequences to correct the problem causing the inherited disorder. 
• Therapeutic cloning has tremendous potential in preventative therapy by creating healthy cells that are genetically identical to the patient to replace damaged cells. Preventative therapy with therapeutic cloning makes medical treatments more effective while also reducing the cost.