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...tree frog species were discovered during a survey of Sri Lanka's rain forests 4,000 is the number of significant threats U.S. embassies receive each year, say State Department officials 4,767 years is the age of a bristlecone pine in California, according to scientists attempting to clone what they say is the oldest living tree 35 truckloads of weapons and ammo were seized from a single cache in Afghanistan by U.S. forces last week...
Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., took a skin cell from Cow A, cloned it (by injecting the nucleus into a cow egg whose nucleus had been removed), then implanted the embryo in the uterus of Cow B. That embryo clone grew into a fetus, which, had it been born, would have been Cow C. But it was not born. The fetus was removed from the uterus and harvested for its tissues. These tissues from the clone were then put back into the original Cow A. Lo and behold, it worked. These cells from the clone were...
...amazing success. This is precisely what the advocates of research cloning are promising. Clone, grow it and then use the cloned tissue to create near identical replacement parts for the original animal and thus presumably put us on the road to curing such human scourges as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's, spinal-cord injuries and the like...
...kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious care. As for the actors, they're on their own, and it shows...
...Let’s clone her,” Allard said of Whitton. “Look at what she can do. She’s an incredible hitter...