Cloning expert calls on MPs to back hybrid embryos work

March 27, 2008

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. (Scotsman)