Mom, Dad, Clone: Implications for Reproductive Privacy

On 5 July 1996 a sheep named Dolly was born in Scotland, the result of the transfer of the nucleus of an adult mammary tissue cell to the enucleated egg cell of an unrelated sheep, and gestation in a third, surrogate mother sheep. Although for the past ten years scientists have routinely cloned shee...

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Published in:Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics 1998-04, Vol.7 (2), p.176-186, Article S0963180198702117
Main Author: ANDREWS, LORI B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Animals
Bioethics
Child
Cloning
Cloning, Organism - legislation & jurisprudence
Ethical aspects
Ethics, Medical
Female
Genetic Determinism
Genetic Privacy
Genetics, Behavioral
Government Regulation
Health Policy - legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Male
Policy
Power (Psychology)
Privacy - legislation & jurisprudence
Reproductive Techniques - legislation & jurisprudence
Risk Assessment
Social Responsibility
SPECIAL SECTION: CLONING: TECHNOLOGY, POLICY, AND ETHICS
United States
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Summary:On 5 July 1996 a sheep named Dolly was born in Scotland, the result of the transfer of the nucleus of an adult mammary tissue cell to the enucleated egg cell of an unrelated sheep, and gestation in a third, surrogate mother sheep. Although for the past ten years scientists have routinely cloned sheep and cows from embryo cells, this was the first cloning experiment that apparently succeeded using the nucleus of an adult cell.
ISSN:0963-1801
1469-2147
DOI:10.1017/S0963180198702117