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...most common method used is the same procedure that produced Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned. Scientists remove the DNA material from any cell in the animal they wish to clone (usually a skin cell) and place it into an egg that has had its own DNA removed. That egg is electrically and chemically activated to begin dividing, and after a few days in the Petri dish, it is transplanted into the womb of a surrogate until birth...
...only that, but according to the MIT Technology Review, researchers are developing ways to make the little rascals friendlier - injecting bits of DNA into bacteria to make them "glow, detect light," or even smell sweet. "Minty-fresh foot fungus" is projected as a real possibility. Of course, so was democracy in Iraq, but why drag that...
...While the once innovative industry is struggling to find a new direction, the state's schools have moved into the fast lane of educational reform. "The collapse of the auto industry, which also exploded the notion embedded in the DNA here that you can make a good living despite being a high school dropout, created a perfect storm for convincing everyone we needed to make changes," says Michael Flanagan, Michigan's superintendent of public instruction. For three months last fall a task force of state education officials, school superintendents, college deans and a Ford Motor Company executive pored over scholarly...
...sunny soul, and he told me, "Society has come so far, and we're certainly not going backward." Even if racial preferences are ruled unconstitutional, "people are going to find a way to do it anyway." The Congressman is quite right. Diversity has been written into the dna of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. In fact, there is a general acknowledgment, in all but the most troglodytic precincts, that our racial diversity is a major American competitive advantage in the global economy. And so, if universities can give...
IDENTIFIED. Mark Goudeau, 42, former construction worker, as the alleged "Baseline Killer" who terrorized the Phoenix, Ariz., area with a string of assaults and shootings over 10 months starting in the summer of 2005; by police who cited DNA and ballistics evidence linking Goudeau, in custody since September on related sexual-assault charges, to the murders; in Phoenix. Named for the street on which the early attacks took place, the murderer left eight women and one man dead. When formally charged, Goudeau, who says he is innocent, could face 71 criminal counts, including nine of first-degree murder...