i found this news sadder.........<P>BAA BYE TO DOLLY<BR>Dolly the sheep - the first mammal to be cloned - has died. <P>Her death sparked renewed fears over cloning techniques.<P><BR>She was put down after a contracting a progressive lung disease aged six. Sheep can live until they are twelve.<P>Dolly became the first cloned mammal when she was born on 5 July 1996. <P>She was named after singer Dolly Parton and revealed to the public the following year.<P>The sheep bred normally on two occasions with a Welsh mountain ram called David. <P>She first gave birth to Bonnie in April 1998 and then to three more lambs in 1999. <P>Ethics<P>Alarm bells began ringing in January last year when she was diagnosed with a form of arthritis.<P>Professor Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly, has said her arthritis showed their cloning techniques were "inefficient" and needed more work.<P>Dolly could live to be 10, he said at the time.<P>Expert on the ethics of human cloning, Dr Patrick Dixon, said the nature of Dolly's death would have a huge impact on possibility of producing a cloned human baby.<P>"The real issue is what Dolly died from, and whether it was linked to premature ageing," he said.<P>Findings<P>Dr Harry Griffin, from The Roslin Institute, the Scottish research centre which created her, said: "Sheep can live to 11 or 12 years of age and lung infections are common in older sheep, particularly those housed inside.<P>"A full post-mortem is being conducted and we will report any significant findings" <BR>
