Word: cloning
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...annual roundup of the best new products and technological innovations prompted readers to share their excitement about the cool things that await them in the future - maybe even as a holiday gift. Some, however, were troubled by the ethical implications of the cloned dog Snuppy I truly enjoyed your selection of the best new inventions [Nov. 28]. I liked the ENV hydrogen-powered motorcycle and the Shift tricycle, whose rear wheels move closer together at higher speeds and separate for balance at slower ones. But I was most impressed by the LifeStraw [a drinking tube with powerful filters that...
...Hwang, who this year became the first scientist to clone a dog, was already under fire after being forced to apologize in November for ethical lapses in his work. It was revealed that many of the eggs used to produce human stem cells in his first breakthrough work at the start of 2004 had come from two of his own researchers or from donors who had been paid-both serious breaches of medical ethics. But it seems that Hwang still has one last chance to vindicate himself: by proving that his frozen stem-cell colonies are authentic and that...
...Snuppy, the dog cloned by South Korean scientists, was a disturbing choice for TIME's Invention of the Year. The cloning of mammals has an extremely low success rate, and experience suggests that Snuppy may later suffer debilitating illness. The purpose of the Snuppy experiment is clearly to put a cuter, more approachable face on the use of cloning technologies in humans. While there are people who might approve of the use of more than 100 canine egg donors and 123 surrogate mother dogs to get one viable clone, I and many others consider this "invention" a cynical public relations...
...unnerved by your referring to Snuppy as an invention. The cloning technique is remarkable, without a doubt, but it is wrong to classify a cloned creature as an invention. Doing so somehow implies that a clone is different from and inferior to other living creatures merely because the method of creation was changed. A clone is just another member of its species. Laura White Folsom, California...
...Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke. The rest of you have actually watched the show. Adapted from a cheesy '70s Star Wars clone of the same name, Galactica (returning in January) is a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal. The basic-cable budget sometimes shows in the production, but the writing and performances are first-class, especially Edward James Olmos as the noble but authoritarian commander in charge of saving...