The issue that won’t go away…
… is back.
In this AP story, Dolly Scientist Gets Human Cloning License, we read that…
The British government Tuesday gave the creator of Dolly the Sheep a license to clone human embryos for medical research into the cause of motor neuron disease.
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Wilmut and Shaw plan to clone cells from patients with the incurable muscle-wasting disease, derive blank-slate stem cells from the cloned embryo, make them develop into nerve cells, and compare their development to nerve cells derived from healthy embryos.
The technique, called cell nuclear replacement, is the same as that used to create Dolly.
Let’s not forget history. Click here for more info on how the ‘Dolly’ project turned out.
