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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Ever since Dolly the cloned sheep shocked the world people have wondered: Is it possible to put the cloning genie back in the bottle? Once we know it's possible, can we prevent the cloning of humans? Tuesday, President Clinton offered his own solution: cut off the money supply. Trying to stop "people from playing God," Clinton imposed a ban on federal funding for human cloning experiments and called for a voluntary moratorium on privately-funded research as well. "Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science," he said. "I believe...
Another potential use for the technology, which scientists have been quick to dismiss, is using the technique to enable humans to clone themselves...
...announcement which has left both the scientific and ethical communities aghast, a researcher working for a private company in Edinburgh, Scotland, has apparently created the first successful clone of an adult mammal--a ewe, genetically identical to a six-year-old adult sheep...
Several clinical applications are already being examined. Medically-useful proteins could be genetically engineered into clone DNA and then mass produced and purified from the sheeps' milk...
...appealing possibility could be to clone herds of the best-tasting beef or the most succulent turkeys, scientists say. The danger would be that in the case of disease, identical animals would have the same vulnerabilities as one another, thus inviting epidemics of massive proportion...