Editorial - To Clone or Not to Clone

'There is perhaps no phenomenon in the field of biology that touches so many fundamental questions as the union of the germ cells in the act of fertilisation; in the supreme event all the strands of webs of two lives are gathered in one knot, from which they diverge again and are rewoven in a new individual life history... The elements that unite are single cells each at the point of death; but by their union a rejuvenated individual is formed which constitutes a link in the eternal process of life'