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...keep asking for money to update my reallyold computer system," says Margo M. Granfors,administrative assistant in the Celtic Languageand Literature department who works on a 486IBM-clone that runs Windows 3.1 on eight megabytesof...
...implanted into a female uterus, this embryo could be used to create a human clone...
LOUISVILLE, Ky: Don't tell Dolly, but she may have been a mistake. The Scottish scientist who cloned the world's most famous ewe more than 12 months ago now reports a "remote possibility" that he used a fetal cell to create her rather than an adult cell. What's the difference? About a year's worth of attention from the world press, since scientists have been able to "clone" animals from fetal cells for about two decades now. As Ian Wilmut of Scotland's Roslin Institute sheepishly admitted to a genetics forum at the University of Louisville, fetal cells...
...gratifying to note that it is an eccentric physicist, Richard Seed, who is planning to start a clinic in Chicago to clone human beings [SCIENCE, Jan. 19]. The fact that it doesn't appear he will succeed brings some solace. It is very scary when academics start discussing the cloning of headless human beings. Scientists should stop playing God. KENNETH MUSANA Montreal...
Back in 1982, a brash newcomer called Compaq Computer sprang up to clone IBM personal computers. Last week Compaq became a virtual clone of IBM, the company. The computer maker will pay some $9 billion for Digital Equipment, a dented dynamo of a company based in Framingham, Mass., in a deal that will complete the transformation of Compaq into a global provider of everything from handheld computers to the monster machines that power corporate networks and the Internet. The buyout creates a behemoth with $37 billion in revenues that trails only the $78 billion IBM. "In the early...