Kemunduran era Kloning

Dolly is a cloned animal created from adult animal seed cells. Dolly's existence was only
announced to the public on February 22, 1997 and immediately received great attention from the
media.

The study was started by Steen Willadsen and his team, they succeeded in cloning cows,
but there is a sad side that this calf is not normal, because calves is very large and there is a cow
weighing 180 kilograms. Twice the normal weight. Many of these calves die. So that this study
could not continue until it was found that the cause of weight increase in cattle. Many cows have
diabetes. Some have enlarged hearts, and have diabetes from birth.

Research on cloning is also opposed by many parties because it is considered dangerous, such as
the Vatican which expressly prohibits cloning, then followed by other countries that prohibit
cloning, because it will change the existing social order, people will be defeated by cloned
humans.

At first, cloning was tried on frogs which was carried out by Prof. John Gurdon. The first
experiment was carried out on tadpoles, namely by placing genes into the tadpole cells. This
experiment succeeded in giving birth to a new tadpole but the tadpoles could not grow into adult
frogs and eventually died decomposed by water.

Steen Willadsen had a brilliant reputation for entering a new field, he succeeded at the
Cambridge animal research center, he applied the Gurdon cloning technique to the frog in the
wild. The first person to use sheep embryos then plant them into sheep egg cells by removing the
nucleus layer. then he wanted to develop this technique individually, he joined a livestock
company in Texas, Granada Corporation. He tried to apply cloning to cow.