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When Dr. Ian Wilmut published his recent research in a British scientific journal, he gave the world pause. Every forum from the CNN Web page to the late night FOX show, "Politically Incorrect," was buzzing about Dolly the now famous lamb clone that catapulted Wilmut into the spotlight...
...afraid of cloning? Why did President Clinton, after forming a commission to study the matter, unilaterally ban research funding for human cloning this week? And why are European leaders moving to take similar steps? Surely, we are not afraid of Wilmut, a humble scientist in Scotland who just wants to turn animals into milk and drug factories...
...Wilmut said Dolly, a seven-month-old ewe, was created by fusing a cell from an adult sheep with an egg from a different sheep. Because the DNA of the egg cell was removed, the DNA of the adult cell directed the subsequent growth and development...
...Wilmut says he envisioned the technology being used in medical research...
...Although Wilmut received his doctorate from Darwin College at Cambridge, his contributions to cloning may give a whole new meaning to Darwin's famous phrase, "the survival of the fittest...