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Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Dolly the Human?Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute has won a license in Great Britain to clone human stem cells for research into a nerve disease. Wilmut famously cloned Dolly the Sheep. If the forward march of cloning technology gives you the creeps, read this. It's my review of a book on cloning from about four years ago. The science has tromped on ahead, but most of the principles are the same.
What should really scare you is not anything Wilmut is likely to do, but this development in another part of Europe:
Spain's socialist Government announced details of a bill that would allow parents of a child with an incurable disease to conceive another baby to help save the sibling's life. As long as the second baby has full rights (and can't be killed or harmed for medicine), then in principle it's just like artificially conceiving a twin -- although one, weirdly, that may have old cells.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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