Cloning 'could beat gene disease'

2006

A scientist involved in creating Dolly the cloned sheep has proposed using cloning and gene alteration to create babies free from hereditary diseases.

A scientist involved in creating Dolly the cloned sheep has proposed using cloning and gene alteration to create babies free from hereditary diseases.

Professor Ian Wilmut argues in a new book that cloning a 100-cell IVF embryo is not the same as cloning a human.