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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, January 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dolly, the cloned sheep which gave the world its introduction to a completed cloning, has developed arthritis at only five and a half years old. Professor Ian Wilmut, a member of the team at the Roslin Institute which created Dolly, could not rule out that the condition may be related to genetic defects caused by cloning. But Wilmut promotes the continuation of cloning research.

Meanwhile, animal welfare groups have protested that cloning is irreversibly fraught with abnormality. Joyce D’Silva, director of Compassion in World Farming, told the BBC “I think of the hundreds and hundreds of other cloned lambs who have been born and had malformed hearts, lungs or kidneys. They have struggled to survive for a few days and then had their lungs filled with fluid and gasped their way to death or had to be put our of their misery by their creators. That is the real story of cloning.”

See the BBC report at:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1741000/1741559.stm