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THE ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY OF CLONING
The science of cloning is moving so rapidly, according to
experts, that the ethical debate surrounding the procedures is
about to be left in the dust. Full-scale human cloning is no
longer a question of if, but when.
Yesterday, researchers at a South Korean hospital claimed they
had combined an egg and a cell from a single donor to produce the
first stages of a human embryo. The four-cell embryo, which
theoretically could have grown into an identical replica of the
woman donor, was not implanted in a woman and the experiment was
halted.
Here is a chronology of how swiftly events are moving in the
science of cloning:
o In February of 1997, researchers in Scotland announced the
successful closing of the now-famous sheep, Dolly.
o Only a few months later, a national ethics commission
recommended to President Clinton a three- to five-year
moratorium on human cloning research, arguing that nothing
would be lost by such a ban, since it would most likely
take at least that long to know whether cloning could
succeed -- a prediction that seems to have been proved
wrong.
o The ban was not approved, and in July 1998 a University of
Hawaii team produced 22 mice -- seven of which were clones
of clones from the cells of a single mouse.
o Only eight days ago, a Japanese team cloned eight calves
-- four of which died at birth -- from a single cow.
Until Dolly the lamb was born, it was a scientific truism that
the cloning of adults was a biological impossibility. No longer.
The South Korean experiment was halted due to fear of ethical
repercussions -- not because the researchers lacked the
technology.
Sources: Sheryl WuDunn, "South Korean Scientists Say They Cloned
a Human Cell," and Gina Kolata, "Speed of Cloning Advances
Surprises U.S. Ethics Panel," both in the New York Times,
December 17, 1998.
For more on Health issues
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/health/hedex1.html
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