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Dolly creator seeks human cloning
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-29 09:03
One of the creators of Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from
an adult, said Tuesday he was seeking permission to create cloned human embryos
for medical research.
Dolly was created at Scotland's Roslin
Institute in 1996. | Ian Wilmut, who led the team
that created Dolly at Scotland's Roslin Institute in 1996, said he had applied
for a license from the government's fertility authority to clone cells from
sufferers of motor neuron disease to discover how the debilitating condition
develops.
"We owe it to the people who suffer from it and are going to suffer from it
in the future to try and develop treatments for them," Wilmut said.
The Roslin Institute said in April it was considering applying for a
therapeutic cloning license but had not yet done so.
Britain legalized therapeutic cloning in 2001, becoming the first country in
the world to do so.
The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority granted the country's first
license for human cloning last month to a team at Newcastle University that
hopes to create insulin-producing cells that could be transplanted into
diabetics.
Such work is opposed by abortion foes and other biological conservatives
because researchers must destroy human embryos to harvest the
cells.
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