The goals and purposes for cloning range from making copies of those that have deceased to better engineering the offspring in humans and animals. Cloning could also directly offer a means of curing diseases or a technique that could extend means to acquiring new data for the sciences of embryology and how organisms develop as a whole over time. Currently, the agricultural industry demands nuclear transfer to produce better livestock. Cloning could massively improve the  agricultural industry as the technique of nuclear transfer improves. Currently, change in the phenotype of livestock is accomplished by bombarding embryos of livestock with genes that produce livestock with preferred traits. However, this technique is not efficient as only 5 percent of the offspring  express the traits. Scientists can easily genetically alter adult cells. Thus, cloning from an adult cell would make it easier to alter the genetic material. The goal of transgenic livestock is to produce livestock with ideal characteristics for the agricultural industry and to be able to manufacture biological products such as proteins for humans. Farmers are attempting to produce transgenic livestock already, but not efficiently, due to the minimal ability to alter embryos genetically, as stated  above. Researchers can harvest and grow adult cells in large amounts compared to embryos.

          Scientists can then genetically alter these cells and find which ones did transform and then clone only those cells. Scientists also ponder the idea of cloning endangered species to increase their population. The possibilities are endless. However,  we are actually doing much of this research for the improvement of life for humans. Scientists foresee the cloning of pigs that will  produce organs that will not be rejected by humans. Also, mentioned earlier, livestock can produce biological proteins  helping people who have diseases including diabetes, Parkinson's, and Cystic Fibrosis. Cloning also provides better research capabilities for finding cures to many diseases. There are also possibilities that nuclear transfer could provide benefits to those who would like children. For instance, couples who are infertile, or have genetic disorders, could use cloning to produce a child. Equally important, women who are single could have a child using cloning instead of in-vitro fertilization or artificial insemination. Nuclear transfer could also provide children who need organ transplants to have a clone born to donate organs. Cloning could also provide a copy of a
child for a couple whose child had died.