Although he is pro-human cloning, he had to present both sides of the issue. In the first few weeks of March last year, the headlines were ablaze. The reason for this media explosion was that Scientists had managed to create an identical genetic copy of a mammal, a feat that was previously thought impossible. To understand the issue of cloning, the most first thing is to understand what cloning is. Sci-fi books and movies can create all sorts of wrong perceptions about cloning, with everything from headless monsters to mind control.
Cloning is the creation of a genetically identical creature from the DNA of an other.
In essence, there were clones before Dolly was around, identical twins. Although the DNA of a set of identical twins is the same, and they look very similar, they are still individual separate beings. Ian Wilmut, the Scottish scientist who created Dolly, the Cloned Sheep suggests that we should clone animals to produce genes and hormones that could help cure such diseases such as hemophilia and cystic fibrosis. Harold Varmus, director of the American Institute of Health suggests that cloning could be used to create more productive livestock and organs suitable for human transplants. While some people are avid sticklers for human cloning, others are equally opposed to it.