WHEN Dolly the cloned sheep was unveiled to the world in 1997, it was the most staggering news ever to cross my desk as a reporter. Which is why I so enjoyed this elegantly written inside story of how a living mammal was created for the first time from a specialised adult cell. Ian Wilmut, head of the team that created her at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, UK, gives an embryo-by-embryo account of how they achieved it. He also explains why it is “criminally irresponsible” to clone humans and immoral not to deploy cloning in medicine.
After Dolly: The…
