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...first step toward cloning a human being, but we're not cloning a human being," says West. "The miracle of cloning isn't what people think it is. Cloning allows you to make a genetically identical copy of an animal, yes, but in the eyes of a biologist, the real miracle is seeing a skin cell being put back into the egg cell, taking it back in time to when it was an undifferentiated cell, which then can turn into any cell in the body." Which means that new, pristine tissue could be grown in labs to replace damaged...
...result, not one cow in America has so far been found to have BSE--and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has an aggressive plan to find, quarantine and destroy any if they appear. "Even if you do eat beef from an infected cow," says Michael Scott, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied the disease in cattle and humans, "you have a very low risk of contracting VCJD...
...hopes of providing a harder-core, more adult-focused alternative. Programming executive vice president Andrew Wilk points to the contrast between A.P.'s hosts and Geographic's star contributors, like Stephen Ambrose (who offers historical perspective on various programs) and primatologist Jane Goodall, as well as personalities like biologist Dr. Brady Barr, a correspondent for National Geographic Today and the prime-time nature show Living Wild, who, Wilk says, "does what Steve Irwin does but in a more authentic way." (Still, the channel may have learned from its competition: it has re-edited the slower-paced older films and added...
...weight regulation--and how the whole system can go awry. With that understanding, they believe, it may be possible to develop drugs that do the job balky genes fail to do--controlling a problem that decades of fad diets and self-help books have never solved. Says molecular biologist Jeffrey Friedman of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University in New York City: "Genomics will identify the players in this system, eventually leading to new targets and new treatments...
...with their respective grandparents in order to join a commune in California, Bruno and Michel become, essentially, the direct descendants of their age. Both dracins endure lonely and occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving by the time they reach adulthood. Michel, a brilliant molecular biologist, gradually withdraws from human contact. Unable to experience emotion, he finds solace instead in his work, which culminates in no less than a Kuhnian shift in paradigm. Bruno, who is neither particularly dashing nor particularly well-endowed (the latter being of even more importance in this new age of increasing...