Mutton Dressed Up As Lamb
The immediate response to the cloned sheep Dolly's birth was a revulsion against the idea of using the same technique to clone human beings. Some 19 countries immediately banned the practice; the U.S. so far has not. But the news had just the opposite effect on the felicitously named scientist Richard Seed, who declared that he was going to produce "half a dozen bouncing baby, happy, smiling clones" before the end of the decade. Whether the world is ready for this remains to be seen.

Such nightmare scenarios aside, the real future benefits of cloning might come not from creating copies of yourself but copies of your cells, making it possible to, say, grow new retinal tissue after yours has given out. Since they come from your own body, cloned cells don't face the problems of rejection that other transplants do, meaning that they could prove invaluable in treating and even curing disease.

from TIME
Cloning the New Babes
Science comes closer to creating the perfect pig, offering hope for a larder of rejection-free organs
MARCH 25, 2000

Dolly's False Legacy
There is more to cloning than mere science--and more to human character than scientists can discover in a person's genes
JANUARY 11, 1999

Seed of Controversy
Will unemployed physicist Richard Seed be first to clone humans?
JANUARY 11, 1999

Dolly, You're History
By making dozens of copies of a mouse, scientists take cloning one step closer to the assembly line
AUGUST 3, 1998

The Case For Cloning
The benefits of this bold technique outweigh the risks, and the danger is not what you think
FEBRUARY 9, 1998

The Age of Cloning
A line has been crossed, and reproductive biology will never be the same for people or for sheep
MARCH 10, 1997

Cloning Dolly
Slouching Towards Creation
MARCH 1997