Monday October 20, 1997
SHEEP CLONER WARNS OF HUMAN MANIPULATION
JASPER, Alta., Oct 20 (LSN) – Ian Wilmut, the Scottish scientist who was responsible for the cloning of an adult sheep, warned against the creation of “designer babies”. Speaking at a conference of science teachers in Alberta on the weekend, the researcher urged his listners to “remember there are people who are already thinking of this.”
The Human Genome Project, an international project to map all human genes, could urge the use of this new knowledge to manipulate the human race. “To let us rip with this present technology… is akin to letting a high school kid loose not just with a sports car, but a jet airplane,” he said.
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