• Question: you know that people have cloned sheep before, do you think that humans wiill ever be cloned as well? it would be sooooo cool though...

    Asked by saracallaway to Davie, Gemma, James P, James V, Nuala on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: James Verdon

      James Verdon answered on 29 Jun 2012:


      I think at some point we will have the technology to clone a human being. However, I’m not sure why you’d want to though? There would be all sorts of ethical issues. So I don’t think it will happen, even though we could.

    • Photo: Nuala Carson

      Nuala Carson answered on 29 Jun 2012:


      Hey saracallaway,

      if we can clone sheep then we cant be that far off humans. As james V said i dont think we should do this. I think even if we have the technology for ethical reasons i dont think we will ever actually do it.

    • Photo: James Pope

      James Pope answered on 29 Jun 2012:


      Hi saracallaway,

      One of the issues with the clone of Dolly the Sheep, was that she died at a younger age than she should have done, so that would be one issue around cloning we would have to fix. But like James V and Nuala have said there would be a lot of ethical issues, so we won’t ever do it. I must admit, I wouldn’t want it to, I like the fact I am a one off totally unique person and that no one will ever be exactly like me in personality or in their genes!

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