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BIRTH ANNOUNCED. Of POLLY, a lamb, the first clone to carry a human gene in every cell of her body; in Edinburgh, Scotland...
...Wilmut, the king of clone, will have to wait a while to claim his Nobel Prize. But it is not too early to give him the 1997 Brevity Award. His paper in Nature announcing his creation of Dolly runs fewer than three pages. (Technical notes take up part of a fourth.) Most scientific papers--most people--take three pages to clear their throat...
Call it the Dolly dilemma. The surprise announcement in February that a sheep had been cloned from the mammary cell of an adult ewe immediately raised the question of whether the same technique could be used to clone people. While the possibility of cloning opens up a new and exciting line of scientific study, it also seems to violate ancient taboos. To help sort out the issues--and to get the jump on a conservative Congress--President Clinton took two swift steps: he called for a moratorium on the use of federal funds for human-cloning research, and he asked...
Indeed, pro-life groups had begun attacking the commission's conclusions even before they were released. When word leaked out earlier in the week that it might allow human- cloning research as long as no cloned embryos were implanted in a womb, the panel was immediately attacked by John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe of the American Life League. The commission was permitting, he said, "two separate grave evils": the creation of a cloned human embryo and its destruction in the lab. As he put it, "This means it is O.K. to clone as long as you kill...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Proving that there may be no way to allow any form of human cloning without setting off a firestorm, anti-abortion groups blasted a recommendation by the Presidential commission on human cloning to allow researchers to clone human embryos for medical research but prevent them from bringing the embryos to term. "This means it is OK to clone as long as you kill," said John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission. The final recommendations of the 18-member National Bioethics Advisory Commission appointed by President Clinton to study the implications of the cloning...