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Article: 'Dolly' expert calls on MPs to back hybrid embryos work
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- March 27, 2008
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A LEADING stem-cell researcher yesterday joined calls for MPs to
support potentially life-saving work using animal-human hybrid
embryos.
Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the team which created the clone Dolly
the sheep, said he respected the views of religious figures such as
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in
Scotland, who has condemned the use of animal-human embryos in
research.
But he said such embryos were nothing more than a tiny bundle of
cells and, as such, were far from being a living human.
Sir Ian also said some of the discussion around the work had
described it "very badly" and incorrectly suggested human and animal
DNA would be mixed.
His comments came after ...