The cloning of Dolly the sheep rose the nightmarish possibility of cloning humans, but the mild-mannered Ian Wilmut was perhaps the best kind of person to calm the media frenzy.
As Wilmut said in an interview in 2019:"The most important effect of the Dolly experiment was to make biologists think differently."To biologists, the significance was huge. If it's possible to turn any cell in the body back into an embryonic-like cell, it's therefore possible to recreate new adult cells exactly matched to the original donor.
The justified excitement around the scientific discovery fuelled such stories, even though Wilmut and thousands of other scientists working in the field found the idea morally unthinkable. Bill Clinton, then the US president, immediately banned human cloning in the US. Many other countries followed suit .
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