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The wonders of eBay allowed the scientists to purchase a $130 bag of 20,000-year-old woolly-mammoth hair from a vendor in Moscow, and the wonders of science allowed them to extract the mammoth's genetic information in the most successful attempt to date to sequence an...
Though Dolly the sheep was the first clone to be shoved into the limelight, in 1996, the process of human-directed cloning has existed since 1952. In that year, American researchers Robert Briggs and Thomas King successfully removed the nucleus of a tadpole's embryonic cell and transferred it...
Since Briggs and King's discovery, a veritable Noah's Ark of clones has been created, ranging from fish in 1963 to horses in 2003. Dolly's birth, at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, marked the first successful cloning of a mammal from an adult cell, proving that a...
3. From Beef, on the dangers facing the cattle industry: "Here's a brief list of potential calamities: a disease in the production chain, a drought that cuts grain supply, rising fuel costs, pathogens, antipollution taxes, foreign competition, unexpected hazards from cloning, and even the possibility that consumers suddenly take...
In the drama Eleventh Hour (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 9), meanwhile, genius biophysicist Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell) advises government agents investigating cases of science gone too far, be they in genetic science or homeopathic drugs (no, really). As is mandatory in the House era, Hood is brilliant, eccentric...