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There it was on the front page of the October 24 New York Times: "Scientist Clones Human Embryos." What had once been science fiction was now fact. Newsweek devoted six pages to the topic, and Time put cloning on its cover, asking: "Where Do We Draw the Line?"
It was the concept of cloning, not the reality, to which the media and the public reacted. It conjured up visions of baby factories, mass-produced humanity, a world populated by carbon-copy people. The reaction was overwhelmingly negative: A Time survey showed that 75% of those polled believed that...
While the success rate may improve, at present this method of cloning does not seem much better than embryo splitting, which typically produces twins and sometimes triplets. There have been other problems as well. Some of the calves produced have weighed so much at birth that they have had to...
When cattle cloning is perfected, it may not be welcomed down on the farm. Idaho dairyman Kurt Alberti, for instance, isn't so sure he wants to clone the offspring of prizewinning cows like his Twinkie, even though she was the American Jersey Cattle Club's top milk producer last...
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