Dolly sheep abandoned the asexual reproduction study

Scientist Ian Wilmut, who led the research group that created Dolly, has said he will not use asexual reproduction techniques to create human embryos in stem cell research.

A few years ago, the current scientist at Edinburgh University developed asexual reproduction technique related to the creation of stem cells from human embryos. However, recently Professor Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University (Japan) has come up with a new technique, which is to create stem cells from skin cells and may not need to use human embryos.

Research by Professor Shinya Yamanaka has been successfully done on mice. Scientists believe this study is the key to treating many diseases such as stroke, heart or Parkinson's.

Wilmut said his team organized a meeting and agreed that Japanese scientists' methods were more potential than using embryonic cells, and were more easily accepted by society. Wilmut's statement could mark the end of asexual reproduction method that scientists have been working on over the past decade.

In 1997, Wilmut's group resonated in the world when it announced Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal in the world created from an adult cell.

Sheep Dolly and " father " Ian Wilmut (Photo: TTO)

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