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...case around Mumia Abu-Jamal-it isn't in the same breath as what was going on the '80s. It represents the embryo of what could be. There's a certain feeling of alienation and cynicism that people themselves don't identify with the same political concerns...
...thousand PGDs have been performed worldwide since Dr. Alan Handyside developed the procedure at London's Hammersmith Hospital in 1989. The majority of candidates for PGD are infertile couples or older women who suffer repeated miscarriages, a condition often due to chromosomal errors easily identified in the embryo stage. But for most couples the cost is prohibitive; a screen for a single disease costs $20,000. Says Santiago Munne of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.: "The limit is not that the population doesn't want it; it's that they cannot pay for it. We could do many...
...attitudes since the bearded, big-boned maverick loomed into view. Seed put into words what many scientists were thinking, and few were surprised to learn last month that a team in South Korea had begun work on human cloning--and even claimed to have produced a four-cell human embryo...
...scientists at South Korea's Kyunghee University Hospital. In any other week the world's press would have trumpeted the news that they had taken a cell from a thirtysomething infertile woman, given it the Dolly-the-sheep treatment and created the world's first cloned human embryo. Sure, the researchers managed to generate a little buzz in the local press when groups like Green Korea United blasted them for meddling with Mother Nature. But around the world (and especially in the U.S.), their claim to fame was overwhelmed by colliding headlines about impeachment and cruise missiles...
Even worse than being ignored, however, was being disbelieved. Because they had destroyed the embryo after only two cell divisions (well before the critical 16-cell stage), because they hadn't videotaped their work and, most of all, because they hadn't published it in a peer-reviewed journal, the rest of the scientific community didn't feel obliged to take the Korean claims seriously. Even RICHARD SEED, the unemployed Chicago physicist who has taken it on himself to give cloning a bad name, was taking potshots. "I am supportive of the work," he told TIME...