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Ian Wilmut
Pioneer of Cloning
Once you've shown that you can do this with an egg by taking a nucleus and an egg, you can ask, what are the factors? Can we find ways of putting those factors into the cell without doing a nuclear transfer? If you can do that, then you can find a way of -- let's say you have a patient with Parkinson's disease, taking a cell from that patient, treating it in the sort of ways that we're beginning to dream about now and it will go back to a very early stage of development. Now, the value of that in principle is that if you got a cell back at that stage you can make it differentiating to everything else, including the nervous cells which are damaged in Parkinson's disease. So I'm quite sure that one day somebody will be describing to you how to do this and to provide cells to treat Parkinson's disease, diabetes, perhaps to reconstitute the immune system in somebody who's had leukemia. To reconstruct the immune system with AIDS, all sorts of different treatments like that.
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