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Sunday, September 26, 2010

How it all started


In February 1997, a scientist named Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at Roslin Institute in Scotland managed to open doors beyond imagination and change the world with endless new possibilities when they managed to clone a lamb. Before this, cloning was merely a myth, something from a science fiction movie, but after the lamb was brought to this world, a new technology was unveiled which had the power as well as the capability to clone animals. Immediately this had a resounding impact as the next big question became the obvious, would humans be next? This drew in governments as well as other scientific organizations, to finally answer questions regarding cloning. This also drew out an ethical concept as well, once the birth of Dolly was proclaimed.