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Human cloning ‘within 50 years’
Parents who lose children in accidents may be able to clone
«copies» to replace them within 50 years, a British scientist who won
this year’s Nobel prize for medicine has predicted.
IVF was regarded with extreme suspicion but be-came widely accepted after the birth of Louise
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S1950s and 60s led to the later creation of Dolly the sheep by Edinburgh scientists in 1996, said
that progression to human cloning could happen within half a century.
Although any attempt to clone an entire human would raise a host of complex ethical issues, the biologist claimed people would soon overcome their concerns if the technique became medically useful.
In-vitro fertilisation was regarded with extreme
widely accepted after the birth of Louise Brown, the
Major improvements in cloning methods would have to be made before they could be applied to humans because the vast majority of cloned animal embryos today are deformed, he added.
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frog experiments that the successful cloning of a mammal would happen within 50 years, and that
step to human cloning.
an eminent American reporter came down and said
years and 100 years – how about 50 years? It turned
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to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public – that is to say if cloning actually turned out to be solving
19/12/2012 13:21
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Human cloning ‘within 50 years’
would be in favour of allowing parents of deceased children, who are no longer fertile, to create another
child, assuming the technique was safe and effective.
child would feel they were some sort of a replace-ment for something and not valid in their own right.
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