NEXT month, it will be three years since researchers at the Roslin Institute
near Edinburgh presented Dolly the sheep to an unsuspecting world. The news
stunned both the public and biologists. Today, many countries are still debating
how—and even whether—the cloning technology that created Dolly
should be applied to humans.
Hairs on necks still bristle when human cloning is mentioned. It stirs up
feelings that scientists are going too far in “meddling with Nature” or that
they are cheapening human life. Many religious groups also harbour specific
objections because of cloning’s dependence on human embryos.
Yet, there now…
