If little else, it means that advances in cloning are coming faster than earlier projected. And the latest feat, say scientists, demonstrates that cloning an adult animal, like Dolly the sheep, is not a fluke as some have suggested. Dolly was created last year by a team of biologists at Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. A UCC minister and professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Cole-Turner says the latest news is significant for several reasons. Once again we see the surprising advance of science.
Researchers appear to have re-written a fundamental principle of biology.
Suddenly, living things have become even more flexible in human hands. It may be just a coincidence, but both Dolly and the mice were produced from cells found only in females. It might be interesting to think how public reaction to cloning would be affected if that occurred. Cole-Turner believes the recent cloning is significant in other ways, too. We need to decide fairly quickly about such research.