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On Sunday, a Worcester biotechnology firm announced that it had produced the first human embryos conceived through cloning. The announcement by the privately funded Advanced Cell Technologies was met by an immediate political response, as President George W. Bush called the procedure “morally wrong” and...
As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in San Francisco in the 1970s, and later at Genentech, Ullrich worked on cloning the gene for insulin. His research led to the development of the first commercial medical treatment, human insulin for diabetes, produced through recombinant dna technology. Since then...
Lisa Beyer, our Society editor, knows something about the tricky business of squeezing people into categories. She has successfully defied being put into a pigeonhole herself, having worked as a muckraking journalist in Singapore, later as our Jerusalem bureau chief and more recently as an editor of TIME cover stories...
China got a third helping of "double happiness" last month when a giant panda named No. 20 gave birth to twins at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Center in Sichuan province. It was the latest blessed event in what is shaping up as a banner year for the woefully...
All the talk about cloning has not escaped the notice of opportunistic entrepreneurs. One company is offering celebrities a chance to copyright their genes, so no one will be able to clone them while they're not looking. "Michael Jordan's sweaty towel and Madonna's sunglasses contain traces of...