Word: cloninger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today such artificially assisted pregnancies are commonplace (an estimated 300,000 have taken place in the past 20 years) and are only one of many options available to would-be parents--from using frozen embryos and surrogate mothers to picking the number, sex and genes of their babies. These innovations...
In any event, he seemed as surprised as anyone else that his modest and eerily simple experiment, conducted with limited funding, should have as much impact on our sense of what it is to be human as anything since Adam and Eve. Wilmut wanted to use his cloning technology to...
That, however, was the very thing that caught the world's imagination. Human cloning! The stuff of science fiction seemed about to become reality. Even before other labs had confirmed Wilmut's discovery, a Harvard-trained physicist named Richard Seed proclaimed his intention to clone humans for commercial purposes. Cloning...
Wilmut said positive aspects of cloning could include creating pigs with organs more acceptable to human bodies for transplants and using sheep to study cystic fibrosis.
The conference included four panels of speakers discussing medicine, cloning, business and predictions for the future. Four speakers were on each panel.