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...There’s incredible carnage in the process of trying to create a clone,” he said. “This is a very, very inefficient process, and the inefficiency is accompanied by a great deal of death and destruction...
...establishing contacts with Islamic terrorists. Phnom Penh Anti-Thai riots rocked Cambodia's capital after false reports that a Thai actress claimed the Angkor Wat temples actually belong to Thailand. Hyderabad An Indian research institute asked Iran to lend it a pair of Asian cheetahs, above, so it could clone the animals, now extinct in India...
...doubts there's a demand for human cloning. On its website, Clonaid estimates it will charge $200,000 for its reproductive service, but Boisselier insisted to TIME that so far she has not charged the first guinea pigs. Clonaid also sells human eggs for about $5,000 each and offers "banks" in which to store cells in case a family wants to clone a loved one in the future. Boisselier also has a pet-cloning service called Clonapet, which she says has also received great interest. "The media only want to talk about possible birth defects, that the baby will...
Still, there was ample reason to challenge her claims of success, even before she began backing off her promise of providing proof. No one has yet succeeded in cloning a primate despite thousands of tries; efforts at a dog have so far failed as well. Even among other mammals, more than 90% of the embryos never implant or die before or soon after birth. Among those most dismissive of her entire operation are the other researchers rushing to beat it, such as Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori. He missed his own deadline, having announced last spring that...
...Hopkins University, two-thirds of Americans approve of using genetic screening to help parents have a baby free of a serious genetic disorder. But more than 70% are against using such techniques to design children to be smarter or more attractive, and 76% are against working on ways to clone humans...