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Last Friday also brought us an Irish Times headline which read 'Cloning advances bring hope of curing diseases'.

On the same day in the London Independent (and subsequently in the Sunday Tribune) Johann Hari was exultant: "The news from South Korea should be greeted by all rational human beings as a cue to glug champagne and hug children," he gushed. "Today victims of Parkinson's, diabetes and Alzheimer's can feel a shaft of hope."