Word: cloned
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Seed has begun to remind pundits and editorial writers of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who provokes strong feelings by shattering the taboo against physician-assisted suicide. The technical challenge involved in ending a human life is trivial, however. Cloning is another matter. Ian Wilmut, the embryologist who produced Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, says there are "serious safety issues" involved in cloning a human. In his experiments with animals, a quarter of his lambs died within a few days of birth. Ultimately, it took 277 attempts to produce Dolly. "Should we really consider or allow experiments of this...
...Scots clone a sheep...
...tiger who it was who could have possibly crafted its "fearful symmetry." "Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" This year, out of a research institute in Scotland, a lamb named Dolly came roaring similarly existential questions. For Dolly was a clone, and her doubling had a fearful symmetry of a different kind: If sheep could be cloned, could humans be far behind...
...same trick that enabled scientists to clone Dolly could one day be used to clone a human being, a possibility Wilmut finds dismaying. The father of three argues that it is every child's birthright to be regarded as unique, not a counterfeit version of someone whose strengths and shortcomings have been revealed. The President of the U.S. and the Pontiff in Rome sounded alarms. Laws were debated; ethical questions raised; scientists were hauled before legislative panels and warned not to trespass on human territory. But how can one un-know science? The issue is one posed by Blake long...
...Best-Known Clone Embryologist Ian Wilmut made a big splash in the gene pool when he announced that he had cloned a sheep named Dolly. Though animals had been duplicated before, Dolly was the first ever created from an adult cell rather than an embryonic one, raising the specter that a human will one day follow in her hoofsteps...