Ian Wilmut

the word “clone” has become one of the most emotive of all the terms coined by scientists which have entered popular vocabulary. I shall add another, and that will be the phrase “Dolly the sheep”. The conception of Dolly, the “baby” of scientist Ian Wilmut and his team has opened the possibility of cloning humans. The mention of Dolly brings to average the person, haunting connotations of “future replicas of living megalomaniacs and the resurrected dead”. Indeed, Dolly has provided misconceptions

Six years ago, an event in genetic history changed our perspective on "reproduction" and added to our conscience a new element in the study of biology. On February 23, 1997, the world was introduced to Dolly, a 6-month-old lamb that was cloned from a single cell taken from the tissue of an adult donor. Ever since the birth of this sheep, a question that never before existed now lingers in the mind of many: should human cloning be a part of our society? Recently the ability to clone a human being

Ian Wilmut and the Cloning of Dolly Definitions of creativity vary based on different people’s interpretations, yet most people agree that creative individuals produce new ideas that can completely change or invent a domain. According to Howard Gardner, creativity is not limited to a single domain, but is unique for all seven domains. Creativity is based on three core elements: the relationship between the child and the master, the relationship between an individual and the work in which he/she

The aspect of having some living organism to have the same type of genetic information and have the same looks, is kind of a skeptical topic to talk about. It is very much more skeptical when the living organism has the same genes as the other and one of them were not born “by nature”. This phenomenon is called cloning. Cloning creates all types of controversies within the scientists and all the population, for the things that scientist can do with just a little piece of a cell. One of the main controversy

On 5 July, 1996, Dr. Ian Wilmut was busy in his garden when he received a phone call that would become breaking news in the scientific community. After decades of research at the Roslin Institute, the first mammal, a lamb, cloned using adult cells was born, and later named Dolly (Cohen). The new knowledge and technology from the process of making Dolly altered scientists’ views and created the foundation for further research on cloning (Shuman). In the 20th century, research organizations worldwide

and is taking place with human cloning at this very moment. If action is not taken, this crowning achievement of medical science could be lost forever. It all began with the team from the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland led by Dr. Ian Wilmut. Wilmut and his colleagues wanted to see if specialized cells could be reprogrammed into thinking that they were not

were possible and if cloning is morally correct. Overall, religion and ethics play a vital role in the both of these viewpoints and greatly effect many positions on the topic of cloning. In February of 1997 Dr. Ian Wilmut, a 52-year-old embryologist at the Roslin Institute in dinburgh announced the cloning of a lamb named Dolly 1. He had replaced the genetic material of sheep's egg with the DNA

completely bans cloning, the industry will simply go over seas or move to countries that have no laws on cloning or any other type of biomedical regulations. It will be in these places that slaves and organ factories will be produced. When Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute cloned the first mammal from an adult cell, he pushed human understanding and technology forward many years. His

Debate on the Legality of Human Cloning Today, the topic of cloning creates more argument than it has ever created before. The argument over cloning is based upon the fact that there are extreme opposing viewpoints on the subject. One of the major arguments offered against human cloning is that it will undermine human individuality. However, despite the popular opposition to human cloning, it is likely to remain an issue. Cloning is reproduction involving only one

extinct for a reason and who are we to say that it is time for them to roam to earth again?      Another type of cloning that is now being investigated is the use of biotechnology to help infertile couples have children. Even “Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly and has come out publicly against human cloning, was not trying to help sheep have genetically related children”(Thomas 47). This technique to impregnate infertile couples is basically the same that they are using