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2007-02-23 | permalink
Dolly’s legacy
Ten years on, mammalian cloning is moving forward with central societal issues remaining unresolved. Yet human reproductive cloning seems inevitable. [...] The world was simply not prepared for the debate. The cloning a year previously of sheep from embryonic cells had led Davor Solter, in an accompanying News & Views article in Nature, to warn that ”it might be a good idea to start thinking about how we might use” the ability to clone from adult cells. But others were dismissive of the prospect, or predicted it to be many years away.
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2007-02-23 | permalink
Dolly’s legacy
Ten years on, mammalian cloning is moving forward with central societal issues remaining unresolved. Yet human reproductive cloning seems inevitable. [...] The world was simply not prepared for the debate. The cloning a year previously of sheep from embryonic cells had led Davor Solter, in an accompanying News & Views article in Nature, to warn that ”it might be a good idea to start thinking about how we might use” the ability to clone from adult cells. But others were dismissive of the prospect, or predicted it to be many years away.
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