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...dads or stepdads. Both were "miracle" children in their mothers' eyes: Clinton was born just after his biological father died in a car wreck; Lott arrived six years after his parents began trying to conceive a child. Lott was an only child and, like Clinton, was treated as an adult from an early age. Both were called upon to mediate frequent arguments between their parents, though Lott's father, unlike Clinton's, was not physically abusive. Still, both men learned to avert conflict, avoid touchy subjects and try to keep everyone happy. Both also developed traits useful for counting votes...
...doesn't expect Dr. Frankenstein to show up in wool sweater, baggy parka, soft British accent and the face of a bank clerk. But there in all banal benignity he was: Dr. Ian Wilmut, the first man to create fully formed life from adult body parts since Mary Shelley's mad scientist...
Dolly, the clone, is an epochal--a cataclysmic--creature. Not because of the technology that produced it. Transferring nuclei has been done a hundred times. But because of the science. Dolly is living proof that an adult cell can revert to embryonic stage and produce a full new being. This was not supposed to happen...
...DIEGO: A neurobiologist in California has found a way to implant the natural behavior of one animal into an entirely different species. The breakthrough, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes just a week after scientists stunned the world by cloning an adult mammal and further demonstrates science fiction's uncanny knack for becoming reality. In the experiment, a chicken was made to act like a quail by transferring certain brain cells from a quail embryo to the brain of a chicken embryo. Once hatched, the chicken's movement's resembled those of a quail...
BEAVERTON, Ore.: The science of cloning climbed a little higher on the evolutionary tree with the announcement that scientists at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton have successfully cloned a rhesus monkey. Unlike Dolly, the wonder sheep who was cloned from an adult animal, the monkeys were duplicated at the embryonic stage, a less dramatic breakthrough. But the success in cloning a primate has researchers salivating. "What we want to do is establish an immortal cell line, something like an embryonic stem cell line, where you can produce literally unlimited numbers of these things," Donald Wolf, a senior...