An old article but my cloning research continues:

LONDON (AP) – The preserved body of Dolly the sheep, who gained worldwide fame as the world’s first mammal cloned from an adult, went on display Wednesday at a Scottish museum.

Dolly, whose birth in 1996 was heralded as a scientific landmark but triggered heated debate about the ethics of cloning, was put to death Feb. 14 after a veterinarian confirmed she had a fatal lung disease. She was 6.

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This time it is the real thing, scientists promise – the complete sequence of human DNA, as perfectly rendered as it ever will be.

Much publicity was given to the announcements of the draft human genome, and then its formal publication, but the final version will be officially launched on Monday in Washington DC.

“What we’ve got now is what we’ll have for all eternity,” says Francis Collins, director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute and the head of the consortium of 16 international institutions that collaborated to sequence the code.

A newly discovered quirk of primate cell biology suggests that monkeys – and humans – are nearly impossible to clone with current techniques.

“There’s a molecular obstacle that stops the technology from working in primates,” says Gerald Schatten, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania. “Charlatans who claim they have cloned humans clearly don’t understand the biology.”

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