How one sheep affected science
On July 5, 1997, the most famous sheep in science was born. Ian Wilmut and a group of Scottish scientists revealed that they successfully cloned a sheep name Dolly.
Dolly looked like every other sheep, there was actually no way to tell her apart from a naturally conceived sheep. Dolly began as a cell from one sheep and was fused with electricity, there was no sperm involved in the creation of Dolly.
Dolly's birth was a scientific breakthrough, it also made people ask what organism would be cloned next. Cloning a sheep seems ethically more benign than cloning a human. In the response to Dolly the president of the USA at the time, Bill Clinton, signed a five year moratorium on federal funding for human cloning. Many other countries were forced to ban cloning in their countries.
Today, human cloning is still considered in its infancy. Many countries do not allow scientists to research any type of cloning. The process still has a slim success rate 1 in every 4. That being said the science behind cloning is really moving forward now, compared to the few years after Dolly was cloned and people became scared.
Scientists have cloned many animals, such as cats, dogs and mice. In 2008 the first primate was cloned, a rhesus monkey. In 2008, the FDA also declared milk and meat products that were made from cloned animals safe to eat.
Even after all of this, people are scared to clone humans, for many good reasons. Below are pictures of successfully cloned mammals.
Dolly looked like every other sheep, there was actually no way to tell her apart from a naturally conceived sheep. Dolly began as a cell from one sheep and was fused with electricity, there was no sperm involved in the creation of Dolly.
Dolly's birth was a scientific breakthrough, it also made people ask what organism would be cloned next. Cloning a sheep seems ethically more benign than cloning a human. In the response to Dolly the president of the USA at the time, Bill Clinton, signed a five year moratorium on federal funding for human cloning. Many other countries were forced to ban cloning in their countries.
Today, human cloning is still considered in its infancy. Many countries do not allow scientists to research any type of cloning. The process still has a slim success rate 1 in every 4. That being said the science behind cloning is really moving forward now, compared to the few years after Dolly was cloned and people became scared.
Scientists have cloned many animals, such as cats, dogs and mice. In 2008 the first primate was cloned, a rhesus monkey. In 2008, the FDA also declared milk and meat products that were made from cloned animals safe to eat.
Even after all of this, people are scared to clone humans, for many good reasons. Below are pictures of successfully cloned mammals.