Cloning License for Dolly's Doc

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 8, 2005 @09:51AM 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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welcome by kevinx · 2005-02-08 09:53 · Score: 5, Funny

I certainly welcome our new cloned human overlords..
as long as they all look like the olsen twins.
Clone rights by Spoonito · 2005-02-08 09:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Clones are people two.

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

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Re:So..... by Dr+Caleb · 2005-02-08 10:00 · Score: 5, Funny

So who got the first one?
Some guy who looks just like him.

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copyright issues? by de1orean · 2005-02-08 10:17 · Score: 5, Funny

the RIAA is watching these developments closely.