ABSTRACT
The announcement that a sheep, Dolly, had been born through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SMT) cloning1 at the Roslin Institute in Scotland (Wilmut et al., 1997), surprised many scientists who thought that SMT cloning was, and would always be, impossible. The startling realization that Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell may have made this technology work, was coupled with slow understanding that experiments on nuclear transfer cloning had been going on quietly in the agricultural community for over 15 years. Researchers had ignored cloning. Bioethicists had forgotten it. Only science fiction writers still talked of cloning as real.
