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A Clone in Sheep's Clothing Three years ago a sheep named Dolly became the biggest news since the first successful open-heart surgery. Dolly, unlike every other mammal on earth is an identical copy of its mother. Dolly has no father. The "miracle" of cloning was preformed by Dr. Ian Willmut and his team at Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. The new research has opened a large amount of possibilities for the future use of the …

…the Wilmut technique is very complicated and requires a lot of work, the equipment needed can be found in any advanced biological research lab and it will be very difficult to prevent doctors from offering cloning as an option to patients who need help, such as the parents of a dying child. Other labs have now confided their progress toward recreating Wilmut's results and cloning may, one day, become as commonplace as in vitro fertilization.