Subject: In a Clone of Your Own?
Speaker: Arlene Judith Klotzko, J.D., M.Phil; Writer in Residence, Science Museum; Honorary Lecturer in Bioethics, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, UCL; Visiting Scholar in Bioethics, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, UCL; Advisor on Science and Society, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre.

Arlene Judith Klotzko describes the new world of possibilities that can be glimpsed over the horizon. She explains that the technology to create clones of living beings already exists, inaugurated in 1996 by Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from a single adult cell.

Researchers are trying to grow embryos, cloned from a single cell of a human being. Klotzko will explain why the prospect of human cloning triggers our dearest hopes and especially our darkest fears, forcing us to ponder anew what it means to be human.

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