IT’S SAFE to clone primates, including humans, but not mice, rats, sheep,
cows, pigs and opossums, claim geneticists. They says there is a vital genetic
difference separating the clonables from the unclonables.
“It lays to rest some of the technical worries about cloning,” says Randy
Jirtle of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. But other researchers say
the claims are dangerous.
“The authors have allowed themselves to over-interpret their interesting
results,” says Ian Wilmut, creator of Dolly the sheep. “I hope that this will
not be used to give encouragement to those who wish to clone humans.”
Cloning often fails…
