WHEN the birth of the first cloned animal, Dolly the sheep, was announced in 1997, the question in many people’s minds was: can we clone people too? “We’ve no idea if it would work,” Dolly’s creator, Ian Wilmut, told Â鶹´«Ã½ at the time.
Seven years later, Wilmut himself is planning to attempt human cloning. He argues in this issue (“The moral imperative for human cloning”) that stem cells taken from cloned human embryos could be of enormous benefit for medical research, as well as providing a means of treating disease. Most controversially, he argues that cloning techniques could…
