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Ian Wilmut , est un embryologiste britannique qui dirige actuellement le centre de médecine régénérative du Medical Research Council à l'Université d'Édimbourg. Il est surtout connu en tant que chef de groupe de recherche qui en 1996 clona le premier mammifère à partir d'une cellule somatique adulte, une brebis nommée Dolly.

On lui décerne le titre d'officier de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique en 1999 pour reconnaître ses services au développement embryonnaire. En 2008, il est fait chevalier. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. juillet 1944
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Ian Wilmut: Citations en anglais

“I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.”

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Interview at the Academy of Acheivement (23 May 1998) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/wil0int-1.

“Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.”

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As quoted in "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume?" by Andrew Ross in Salon (February 1997).

“I'd remind you that in these experiments so far, about one quarter of the lambs that were born alive died within a few days because they hadn't completed normal development. Now, what may be being suggested here is that copies of children would be being produced, and some of those would die soon after birth. So I think that for a clinician to be suggesting doing that is a quite appalling and sad thing for him to be suggesting.”

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On proposals for human cloning in an Interview on The NewsHour, PBS (8 January 1998) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june98/cloning_1-8.html.

“It is quite likely that it is possible, yes. But what we've said all along -- speaking for both the (Roslin) Institute and the PPL staff - is that we would find it ethically unacceptable to think of doing that. We can't think of a reason to do it. If there was a reason to copy a human being, we would do it, but there isn't.”

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On human cloning, in "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume?" by Andrew Ross in Salon February 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000301033550/http://www.salon.com/feb97/news/news2970224.html.

“Is this sort of thing which has been thought about beneficial? So that if you're asking the question, for example, "Is it appropriate to think of making a copy of a person?" You have to ask not only, "What is the benefit to the people who are asking for this to be done?" But also, "What's the impact on the child that's going to be produced?"”

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And that last bit I think often gets missed out.
Interview at the Academy of Achievement (23 May 1998).