As pointed out at the time, this was in contradiction to statements he had made previously, inwhich he had repudiated the idea of
human cloning: «Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in
human cloning: «
Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in
Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with
embryologist Kenneth Campbell in 2002.
The project was a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, jointly funded by the government's Technology Strategy Board and Twemlows Stud Farm, Shropshire, and encompassed a major collaborative effort, which included working with consultant clinical
embryologists in
human medicine.
«So to me, [this result] is not such a big deal,» says
embryologist Richard Tasca of the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland.