Cow Cloning Disaster Is a Warning Against Human Cloning

Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996 to open the way for cloned "transgenic" animal herds -- that is, cloned sheep containing a few human genes so they exude useful medical substances in their milk.

Dolly died young, perhaps because she was cloned. But the approach continued.

Now, in New Zealand, the manufacture of cloned transgenic cows has proved a disaster. From the Radio New Zealand story:

[The study] authored by Claire Bleakley, president of GE Free New Zealand, who told Morning Re...