Word: cloning
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...worried about upsetting). The three weren't having much luck to begin with, but last week the opposing sides dug in. The announcement that the Virginia institute had created embryos just to get their stem cells--and news the very next day that a Massachusetts company was trying to clone embryos for the same reason--got everyone's blood up. "The blast faxes have been going all morning," said a pro-lifer who was lobbying the White House. There were many fevered comparisons to W.'s one-term dad. Conservatives hold it to be gospel truth that...
...other reassurance my side had been giving is that stem-cell research is not about cloning. A day after the news from Norfolk we learned that a laboratory in Worcester, Mass. (the very same lab that three years ago produced a hybrid human-cow embryo) is trying to grow cloned human embryos to produce stem cells--but could be used to produce a full or (even more ghastly) partial human clone. What other monstrosities are going on that we don't know about...
...research at Tokyo's Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living. "The families who are willing to pay have made (children) reluctant to settle for something that requires a lot of hard-ship and work." Now, these psychedelic rangers are becoming as common as Japan's stereotypical drab corporate clone, the salaryman, and their culture is bubbling up from the social underbelly, seriously changing the look of the scene...
...research, published in the Journal of Virology, trumpets Harvard’s creation of the first infectious molecular clone and the first SHIV chimera of the African based HIV subtype C clone...
...arguments on each side have been fierce. Cloning will end our humanity, say one bill’s supporters; it will eliminate individuality and identity; it will turn children from welcomed gifts to parent-designed projects; it will bring back the eugenic program of the Nazis. In tones perhaps more appropriate for a dramatic reading of Revelations, they describe the “post-human future” that would arrive once “The Clones” are loosed upon us. As one vocal supporter prophesied, “once embryonic clones are produced in laboratories, the eugenic...