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From: Proceso
Date: 20000704
Author:Manzanos, Rosario

Su experiencia en el Comité de Bioética de la UNESCO

Cuando Aldous Huxley escribió su novela Un mundo feliz, estaba seguro de que la clonación en seres humanos sería una de las pesadillas del futuro.

Hoy en día, con los nuevos adelantos de la ingeniería genética, se ha logrado hacer la clonación de un mamífero --la oveja Dolly--; pero a pesar de la noticia a ocho columnas de que ya se alcanzó 97% del mapa del genoma humano, por lo pronto el "método de Bokanowsky" de Huxley, gracias al cual se creaban seres Alfa, Beta, Gama o Epsilón, parece muy lejano ...

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