Word: cloning
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...successful birth—should be banned on safety grounds. The state of current research makes the procedure likely to produce a deformed or otherwise diseased clone, if it even survives. Since researchers in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1997, they have discovered severe arthritis in her and other signs of early aging. Scientists believe similar difficulties would occur in human reproductive cloning, and those liabilities make it extremely unwise to experiment with the procedure...
...named cc is a cutie, but there are millions of cuties in animal shelters begging for love. It was sensible of you to note that "given that more than 5 million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to clone a new one. Why not just adopt?" Who needs cc when there are so many originals out there and not enough homes for them all? EILEEN K. BLAU Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
Moreover, when you do get a viable clone, it may not turn out to be much like its parent in anything but its genes. Rainbow and cc have different coloring, for example, since the coats of calicos are determined partly by genes and partly by random molecular changes during development. Temperament too is a toss-up, since it's hard to tease out how much of an animal's personality is genetically scripted and how much is shaped by environment. "The fallacy is that cloning provides a duplicate," says the Humane Society's Pacelle. Concedes Westhusin: "This...
...were possible to create an exact genetic stencil of a lost pooch or kitty, that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Given that more than 5 million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to clone a new one. Why not just adopt? What's more, some of the animals cloned so far have been plagued by fatal heart and lung defects in infancy...
...Panayiotis Zavos, a retired University of Kentucky professor who for two years has been boasting that he would be the first to clone a human, announced last week that he has selected 10 infertile couples and is set to begin work next month. If you thought cc was hard not to love, wait until you see the first baby...