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Arthur Dawkins, Astro-physicist
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If human cloning becomes possible and many scientists believe it is inevitable following the birth of Dolly, the first adult sheep clone the two breakthroughs could be combined so that people requiring transplants could have organs grown to order from their own cloned cells.
The cloning of Dolly the sheep can be used to illustrate important concepts in cell biology and developmental biology.
Since 1997 Dolly the cloned sheep has become the symbolic focus for a network of arguments ranging from animal and human cloning to assisted reproduction and genetic engineering. |