Translation 2002 Spring

This article was a translation of a Chinese article.

The sheep cloned from the cells of adult sheep not only open up the possibility of a broad science, but also brought a moral dilemma.

The photos of a common exterior lamb named Dolly became the front pages of newspapers and magazines around the world last week. It’s because her born was amazing. She was a replica of an adult lamb, and no father.

Although researchers had made clear they thought it was immoral to change their technology to human cloning, but their demonstration had provide a disturbing prospect. But their demonstration or provides a disturbing prospect. Others may not be so scruple， human cloning mean that women can also reproduce without man’s help in principle.

There had been several countries announced the research on human cloning was forbid. But if human cloning was proved practicable, that will not be able to prevent doctors clone human, if not in this country might be in that country.

Cloning requires skill and patience, but the required equipment is the ordinary thing in the biological laboratory. Really, some researchers had already announced that they had cloned monkeys, others know how to use the same technique to clone cow and rabbit in several years ago. So may be there was no need too much investment to establish a research center to clone a patient.