SCI/TECH: First Dolly The Sheep - Now A Human?, page 1
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Topic started on 28-9-2004 @ 09:53 AM by Durden
Remember Dolly the sheep? One of the scientists behind that experiment has now (this Tuesday), requested permission to engage in cloning of human embryos.




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Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly at Scotland's Roslin Institute in 1996, said he had applied for a license from the government's fertility authority to clone cells from sufferers of motor neuron disease to discover how the debilitating condition develops.

"We owe it to the people who suffer from it and are going to suffer from it in the future to try and develop treatments for them," Wilmut said.


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The issue of human cloning is a controversial as well as an important one, considering the coming election, and this recent request will most probably fuel an already heated debate.

Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
NEWS: UK Issues License to Clone Human Stem Cells
SCI/TECH: California to Vote on $3B Stem Cell Project

[edit on 28-9-2004 by Nerdling]
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