Human cloning could start within 50 years insists a leading
scientist whose work led to the creation of Dolly the Sheep
Heartache of losing a child could be eased, says Nobel
prize-winner
Cloning of Dolly the Sheep was followed by a succession of
other mammals
Parents who lose children in tragic accidents may be able to
clone replacements within the next 50 years, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist
has claimed
Sir John Gurdon, the British scientist whose work cloning
frogs in the 1950s and 60s led to the creation of Dolly the sheep by Edinburgh
scientists in 1996, said human cloning could happen within half a century.
The biologist who won this year’s Nobel prize thinks that
while any attempt to clone a human would raise complex ethical issues, people
would soon overcome their concerns if the technique became medically useful.