Ian Wilmut

Cloning Benefits and Moral Concerns “Cloning describes a number of different processes that can be used to produce genetically identical copies of a biological entity” (United States Natl. Human Genome Research Inst.). Scientists have cloned many biological things even animals in the pursuit of discovering benefits. Along the way, there have been those that have raised concerns about morality and ethics in cloning. Although cloning has many benefits, it’s still surrounded by moral concerns.…

Stiff jackets brushed past each other under the fluorescent light while soft baaing trickled from the corner of the room. There was not any hay strewn across the ground, nor was there boarded walls with cobwebs in the corner because here at the moment of its birth, this lamb was a scientific miracle. There, lying in its amniotic sac was the first animal clone, Dolly. Her DNA was an exact duplicate to the Finn Dorset ewe from which scientists took cells (Aldridge). While it’d be of interest to…

Dolly was cloned on July 5, 1996 by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell and was put down at the age of six after a notable difference in her size was made compared to other sheep as well as having arthritis. According to an editorial in The Lancet, published in March of 2003, the creators of the…

Imagine living in a society where performing a certain process, a perfect genetically identical copy of a biological entity could be produced. This process is called cloning, and essentially it takes from one’s own genetic makeup to produce an exact replica (Cloning Fact Sheet). These exact replicas, known as clones, can benefit our society in some ways, but could also deteriorate society into something people would not recognize. Elements of cloning suggest the fallacy of a slippery slope. One…

Therapeutic Cloning Although not a very popular topic, the issue of cloning human body parts is very relevant in today’s technological world. In 1996, Dr Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute was able to successfully clone a sheep named Dolly. Later, in 1998, Japanese scientists were able to clone mice. By the end of the year 2000, thousands of animals were successfully cloned. In 2001, a human embryo was cloned successfully to a 32 cell stage, before scientists terminated it. Had this experiment…