Dolly the Sheep's 10 year anniversary

Ian Johnston in the Scotsman on the ten year anniversary of Dolly the Sheep:

The general public could perhaps be forgiven for starting to view
what was hailed as the world's greatest scientific breakthrough of 1997 by the
journal Science as nothing more than a historical curiosity. However, the
growing band of scientists involved in the field of stem-cell research now look back
on the birth of Dolly as a defining moment. [IPBiz note: the paper on Dolly did not appear until 1997.]

Ian Wilmut is quoted on cloning: "People have clearly tried with rhesus monkeys particularly and they have not been successful. There may be something different with the embryos of primates and it will need something new to make it work."

In what Wilmut describes as "very encouraging and exciting" work,
Professor Shinya Yamanaka, of Kyoto University in Japan, recently managed to use
a virus to give mouse skin cells some stem-cell-like properties.


[IPBiz post 1737]