Professor Ian Wilmut’s decision to abandon embryonic stem-cell research has sent shock-waves through the cloning community.Professor Ian Wilmut, the medical researcher who pioneered animal cloning and created Dolly the sheep, has announced that he will abandon research aimed at producing human embryonic stem-cells through cloning, i.e., so-called “therapeutic cloning”.Professor Wilmut is chair of reproductive biology at the University of Edinburgh and director of the Scottish Centre for Regenera…
