Cloned dog latest milestone for S.Korea's stem cell pioneer
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-04 10:52

Ian Wilmut, a reproductive biologist at the University of Edinburgh who produced Dolly, and others praised Hwang but cautioned that politicians and scientists must face the larger and more delicate issue _ how to extend research without crossing the moral boundary of duplicating human life in the lab.

"Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would be possible to clone any mammalian species, including humans," Wilmut said.

At a news conference in Seoul, the cloning team also condemned the reproductive cloning of humans as "unsafe and inefficient."

Human reproductive cloning already is banned in South Korea. Other nations, including the United States, are split over whether to ban just human cloning or cloning of all kinds, including the production of stem cells.

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