It's 2060 AD. Human clones are all around, though often we have no idea who's a clone and who isn't..
The other day I got a great surprise when a friend told me she was one. I would never have guessed. Of every 1,000 babies born now, 20 are cloned. We have laws to govern cloning just as we have laws to protect human embryos and control surrogacy. Animal cloning has revolutionised agriculture, and many pharmaceuticals now come via cloning in animals.
This all stemmed from groundbreaking work back in the late 1990s. Research on sheep showed that by transplanting the nucleus from the cell of one adult sheep (A) into an egg of another sheep (B), the egg with the transplanted nucleus acted as if it had been fertilised by a sperm. The resulting lamb was genetically identical to A.
