And while the technology for cloning may be relatively simple, the technique remains fiendishly hard, with a low success rate. At the Regional Primate Centre in Oregon, Don Wolf and his colleagues achieved early success four years ago with a simpler form of cloning than the Dolly method when they produced twin rhesus monkeys, Netti and Ditto. But they have not been able to repeat the feat. We still have the same set of goals, to produce animals for biomedical research and vaccine development, but it's slow. The success rate is low.
Most cloned embryos die.
We need another breakthrough. Hawaii and Japan have routed the sceptics. Eventually it will be proven that you can clone each of the million or so species on the planet. Including, presumably, ourselves. There is no suggestion that Clonaid, the company set up by the Raelians, the religious cult which believes the resurrected Christ was a man cloned by aliens, has managed to emulate its extraterrestrial patrons.