Cloning | Animal Cloning Experiments Will Be Beneficial to Humans

Ian Wilmut is an embryologist and cloning researcher at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. Andrew Ross is managing editor of Salon, a monthly on-line magazine.

Summary: Human cloning research is ethically unacceptable due to the numbers of embryos that would be killed in such experiments. However, animal cloning research should be allowed because it can help scientists invent biomedical treatments for humans with serious diseases, produce organs for xenotransplantation (animalto- human organ transplants), and create healthier, more diseaseresistant...

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