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...MOTION MACHINE? WILL WE MEET E.T.? WILL A KILLER ASTEROID HIT THE EARTH? HOW WILL THE UNIVERSE END? WILL WE DISCOVER ANOTHER UNIVERSE? WILL THE MIND FIGURE OUT HOW THE BRAIN WORKS? WILL WE HAVE A FINAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING? WILL WE FIGURE OUT HOW LIFE BEGAN? WILL WE CLONE A DINOSAUR? WILL WE KEEP EVOLVING? WILL ANYONE EVER RUN A 3-MINUTE MILE? WILL WE CONTROL THE WEATHER? CAN WE SAVE CALIFORNIA? WILL WE EVER TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT? ...REACH ABSOLUTE ZERO? ...GET RID OF COCKROACHES? WILL THERE BE ANYTHING LEFT TO DISCOVER...
...taking a more thorough approach to the mapping. "There are gaps in Celera's gene sequence," says Thompson. "But what the public project doesn't like to say is that there are big gaps in their sequences as well. Right now we simply don't have the technology to clone some chromosomes." And as for the medical breakthroughs that these projects promise, they are still a few years away. First, it's going to take everyone some time to sort through all the technical mumbo-jumbo and overcome concerns about sharing information. Then any resultant technologies will have...
Dolly was once an awfully lonely sheep. When the famously cloned animal made headlines in 1997, she was the only mammal ever to be manufactured from the cell of an adult donor. Since then, the clone ranks have swelled, with mice and cattle also toddling out of the labs. Last week cloning technology took another step forward when an international biotechnology company announced that it had created a litter of five genetically identical piglets, and that it had a pretty good idea of how they could one day be used: as organ donors for ailing humans...
...place, the body rebels, rejecting it even more violently than it would a human graft. "A pig heart transplanted in a person would turn black within minutes," says David Ayares, a research director with PPL Therapeutics, the biotech firm based in Scotland, New Zealand and Virginia that helped clone Dolly and also produced the piglets...
Serious moral and legal questions are already being raised by these gene experiments. For example, if a clone of comedian Don Rickles were to grow up and entertain a whole new generation of audiences by insulting them with the term hockey puck, would the Rickles estate be entitled to royalties? Or could Ricklebaby claim them as his own, since it was his natural instinct to use the term? And for that matter, can anyone at all claim ownership of the term hockey puck, including the National Hockey League...