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Seed says he has already lined up four clients for his cloning service--all couples with infertility problems--although he will not provide their names. He also claims to have put together a team of experts in reproductive technology. But he admits that he lacks financing. All the more reason...
That ploy could backfire. The more exposure Seed gets, the more eccentric he seems. "God made man in his own image," he told National Public Radio correspondent Joe Palca last week. "God intended for man to become one with God. Cloning...is the first serious step in becoming one with...
Seed has begun to remind pundits and editorial writers of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who provokes strong feelings by shattering the taboo against physician-assisted suicide. The technical challenge involved in ending a human life is trivial, however. Cloning is another matter. Ian Wilmut, the embryologist who produced Dolly, the first...
Not at present, mainstream scientists universally agree. Which, of course, is why Seed has stirred up such a fuss. How do we as a society really feel about cloning humans? Will opposition really evaporate--as Seed insists it will--the minute the public beholds "half a dozen bouncing-baby, happy...
"Alive." Never have a pair of quotation marks loomed so ominously. Take the mouse-frog technology, apply it to humans, combine it with cloning, and you are become a god: with a single cell taken from, say, your finger, you produce a headless replica of yourself, a mutant twin, arguably...