Bioethics

Case Study 1

Case Study 2

Animal and Human Cloning

Cloning is not new. Successful experiments with frogs date back to the 1970s.

In 1997, the birth of the cloned sheep - Dolly, as first reported in the Nature periodical, has declared the success of mammal cloning. This news has attracted the attention of the mass media and becomes a hot issue of public discussion. Why? The breakthrough in the research of science has announced that scientists have marched into an era of human cloning.

Subsequent to the release of this astonishing news about animal cloning, the politicians, scholars and religious parties have started off strong arguments and explorations over possible problems that might arise from views of science and technology, society, ethics and religion.

Animal Cloning

Have you heard about these two cloned animals?

	The young sheep named Dolly (left), with her surrogate mother, was cloned by Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in March of 1997.
GENE, the world's first bovine clone, was created by Infigen in September 1997. Its herd of cloned catted has grown to 37 and could be the largest in the world.

 

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