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...than artistic: decrying corporate greed and ecological devastation ("The Lorax"), indoctrinating children before they are born ("Hoober-bLoob"), delineating the madness of America's arms race with the Soviet Union. Of course the liberal in me, and the humanist too, cheer these sentiments and hope they stuck in the DNA of the kids who watched them. These films may be among the most salutary treasures in Geisel's legacy...
...date, the bulk of that money has gone into producing films; very little of it goes into international distribution. Now that imbalance is coming into focus. Some of Europe's bigger companies have decided to join hands across the water. This past September, Britain's DNA Films (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) signed a $50 million deal with America's Fox Searchlight, giving Fox a major British co-production pal and DNA access to worldwide distribution. Others envision a distribution system without the American dollar. In 2002, the five distributors of Indie Circle came up with a simple idea...
...cloners suck out an egg's nucleus with a tiny pipette, Moon and Hwang made a pinhole in the cell wall and used a tiny glass needle to apply pressure and squeeze the nucleus out. "It's more gentle with the egg and allows you to remove only the DNA and leave some of the major components of the egg still inside," says Jose Cibelli, a professor of animal biotechnology at Michigan State University and a co-author of the Science paper. "Actually, it's pure speculation, but we can't come up with anything else, so we think that...
What makes the achievement even more significant is that it gives doctors a way to create stem cells bearing a patient's own DNA. Tissues grown from those cells could replace diseased tissue in the patient without any risk of rejection...
Some researchers say all the talk about replacement tissue overlooks a more immediate benefit of stem cells: if you cloned them from someone with a genetic disorder, you could perform all kinds of experiments zeroing in on the DNA that is causing the problem. "If you had that," says Dr. Irv Weissman, director of Stanford's Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, "this would be a transforming technology as important as recombinant DNA...