The Dolly Technique
Could we clone people?
hESCs
SIXTEEN years after the amazing creation of Dolly the cloned sheep, researchers have realised the dream of producing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) using a similar cloning technique.
Shoukhrat Mitalipov
But hESCs may be back on the scene, following work by Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton and his colleagues. In 2007 they showed that it was possible to develop embryonic stem cells from monkey eggs using the Dolly technique. Now they have fine-tuned the method to work with human eggs too.
Our three scientists
Shoukhrat Mitalipov
He is the leader of the Dolly project
John Gurdon
He won the Nobel price for his cloning project
Woo Suk Hwang
He faked a cloning
We will soon be able to clone humans
We will soon clone humans
We are close to cloning us