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Yesterday, Ian Wilmut, a Scottish professor and the researcher, who cloned Dolly, gave the most enigmatic presentation. Wilmut said cloning holds many benefits for science but that human replication could pose a host of problems...
...Wilmut cloned "Dolly," a Finn Dorset lamb named after Dolly Parton, in 1996. The original cell was taken from a mammary gland...
...Wilmut said he could envision three reasons for cloning: to "treat infertility, buy back lost relatives, and copy a desired person...
...judgement is it would not be in the interest of the child," Wilmut said. "I think it would generate unacceptable expectations in the parent as to how the child should...
...Wilmut said positive aspects of cloning could include creating pigs with organs more acceptable to human bodies for transplants and using sheep to study cystic fibrosis...