Word: wilmut
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Although the details of his experiment will not be available for public scrutiny until Thursday, when the results will appear in the scientific journal Nature, Dr. Ian Wilmut seems confident with the results of his experiment...
...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...
...small Scottish biotech company responsible soaring as investors drooled (whole herds of the same prizewinning cow!) over the possibilities. More cautious types pointed out that this procedure could presumably, uh, be used to make copies of humans, which opens up an extremely large ethical can of worms. Ian Wilmut, one of the scientists involved in the project, said it would be unethical to even try. "There is no clinical reason why you would do this. Why would you make another human being? We think it would be ethically unacceptable, and certainly would not want to be involved in the project...