Cloning License for Dolly's Doc

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.

Comments

Re:I wish they'd clone Steve Ballmer.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ballmer. He already does it, although his feces is called windows.

so smart and yet so stupid.

[lasermike026]

Cloning humans... this is as dumb as nuclear war and George W. Bush.

Re:Is this a good idea AT THIS TIME?

[RailGunner]

Dittos to the parent poster. I'd also like to add the following:

Where are the freaks, the failed Dolly clones?

What about the freaks, the failed Human clones? Would they be destroyed? Is life so worthless that we can discard it so easily?

Cloning humans is an insanely *bad* idea, I think. And yeah, God's not going to be happy about it.

OMG Chill

[RoTCarnage]

Why do people think that some one is going to go spend BILLIONS to create an army of human clones? Get real, no one is going to spend the money so I don't see how the research could possibly be a threat.

Re:This is great news.

[RoTCarnage]

The idea is to clone organs and my mother in law wouldn't be dead had the regious STFU and let things progress. My cloning strike down diabeties and a MYRIAD of other diseases.

Re:Thank you Bush!

[Lord Kano]

As much as the parent can be considered a troll, he/she is right.

No. He's a troll and so are you.

The pressure of religious ethics of the right wing Christians, along with this administration's spite towards science,

The administration is spending a lot of money on scientific research, specifically the trips to the moon and mars.

will result in rapid elimination of the slim lead that the US has been maintaining in medical and basic research.

If embryonic stem cell research and human cloning were really so promising, Pfizer and Eli Lily would be dumping tons of money into R&D with the hope of patenting the results of that research. The fact is that they're not.

LK