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Forty years ago this question would undoubtedly evoke univocal reactions in laymen's circles: tapping their foreheads and knowing looks. It would have probably given some maniacal scientist a reason to unfold a vision of the future world. One thing is obvious: cloning was something mysterious, belonging then only to the science-fiction realm, known only from books like Huxley's "Brand New World". But 'brand new world' was about to come very soon.