A Shocking and Humbling Book
Is this really the way society views scientists? asks our reviewer April 2005
Dolly was the most famous sheep in history. Her parents were the nucleus of a skin cell scratched from the udder of a six-year-old sheep and an unnamed ewe’s egg, their bed a Petri dish. She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, her inventors having succeeded in winding back the developmental clock that commits indeterminate cells to becoming…