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Cloning License for Dolly's Doc

Posted by Zonk on from the not-baaaaad dept.

Rollie Hawk writes "Ian Wilmut, leader of Dolly the sheep's team and Professor at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, has been given the green light by the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to start further cloning research. As a matter of fact, he is now a licensed human cloner. The license has a duration of one year and is the second of its kind given by Britain, the first country to officially sanction human cloning research. Research will be focusing on motor neurone disease (MND). The team hopes to perform cell nuclear replacement on the skin cells of MND victims in order to create stem cells, the jack-of-all-trades of the cell family and the supposed magic bullets for ailments ranging from Alzheimer's to paralysis.

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  1. welcome by kevinx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I certainly welcome our new cloned human overlords..
    as long as they all look like the olsen twins.

    1. Re:welcome by Jakhel · · Score: 2, Funny

      how rude

  2. Clones in the news again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't this story a dupe?

  3. Clone rights by Spoonito · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clones are people two.

    10 print "clones are people" $d
    20 let $d = pun
    30 gosub hilarity

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    "show me all the blueprint show me all the blueprint show me all the blueprints"
  4. Re:So..... by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 5, Funny
    So who got the first one?

    Some guy who looks just like him.

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    "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
  5. License to copy by saddino · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a matter of fact, he is now a licensed human cloner.

    Something tells me he wouldn't have a problem creating a fake ID if he really needed one.

  6. Oh noooo!!! by ryanvm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh crap! This is England's first step in building a clone army to conquer the world. I've had visions of this army and their teeth look like this.

  7. What the US does well is... by doublem · · Score: 2, Funny

    We're better at starting wars we can't finish.

    And condemning things to Hell.

    Oh! And getting fat. We have more fat than the rest of the world combined.

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    "Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
    1. Re:What the US does well is... by johnnyb · · Score: 2, Funny

      And giving the rest of the world a taste of freedom.

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      Engineering and the Ultimate
  8. Re:should I write a novel? by eyeye · · Score: 2, Funny

    are you a clone of CrazyJim0 ?

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    Bush and Blair ate my sig!
  9. I'm against cloning by flyingsquid · · Score: 1, Funny
    I for one am against cloning. Imagine what would happen if it resulted in something like "Attack of the Clones" being played out all over the world.

    (Shudder). Just imagine the horror: a world in the grips of stale dialogue, bad acting, the lack of real suspense or characters you can care about...

  10. copyright issues? by de1orean · · Score: 5, Funny

    the RIAA is watching these developments closely.

  11. Re:Thank you Bush! by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Funny
    Don't worry...we can always rely on our skilled manufacturing wor....oh. Umm..what is it we do better than everyone else again?

    Music, movies, microcode, high-speed pizza delivery. Now, come on, this is pretty basic stuff from your introductory-level geek courses...

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    Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.