People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

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