The father of the stem cell research and the creator of the sheep Dolly, Ian Wilmut, has decided to step out of the stem cell research and to jump to the alternative medicine. Way back in 1997, when he and his co researchers have created the cloned sheep, the stem cell had entered a new horizon. “Dolly was a big surprise to everyone,” recalls stem cell biologist Thomas Zwaka of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at the Baylor College of Medicine. With the changing time, the technology that created Dolly, is to be called as a separate research theory called the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). The technology places the nucleus into an unfertilized human egg and then harvest embryonic stem cells to treat intractable conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.

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The stem cell research is likely to enter a new stage when the Stemagen Corporation, based in La Jolla, California, claims that it used cloning technology to make five human embryos. This means that hope is on the horizon that they will be able to make matched stem cells for patients.

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Hwang’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in South Korea and Bio Arts International (animal and human genomic industry) are going to start a dog breeding business in partnership. Bio Arts announced that they are going to start an auction from June 18th, where dog owners can bid a minimum of $100,000 for the right to have their dogs cloned.

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