A Number

"We are all individual... But what if you found out that you're not? What if, disappointed with how you turned out, your parents secretly had you cloned in the hope that "version 2.0" will be closer to their expectations? How would you react if confronted with this dark secret?"

An interesting little play exploring the ethics of cloning, questions of identity, nature versus nurture and all sorts of good stuff.

Unfortunately we couldn't stay for the discussion afterwards but there was a video camera in evidence so I'm hoping the Genomics Forum will post it sometime. On the panel was Professor Keith Campbell, one of the boffins involved in the research that lead to Dolly the sheep.