Animal biotechnology: The Ethical Landscape
By Gjerris, M. (2012)
In Brunk, C. & Hartley, S. (eds.): Designer Animals. Mapping the Issues in Animal Biotechnology. University of Toronto Press, pp. 47-70
Introduction
Why Are We Discussing Ethics All the Time?
In 1997, the Dorset ewe Dolly was presented to the world by a group of researchers led by Dr Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in Edin- burgh. Normally sheep do not give rise to headlines in media around the world, but Dolly did. She was a clone, a close genetic copy of an adult animal. She was produced by taking a cell from the mammary gland of an adult sheep and fusing it with an egg cell from another sheep that had been emptied of the genetic material in the cell core. This produced a fertilized egg that was transferred to a surrogate mother, and after a normal pregnancy, Dolly was born. This was something widely believed until then to be biologically impossible in mammals.
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