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...field of mammalian cloning. Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, scientists have followed with pigs, cattle, mice, rabbits, horses and cats. But though they tried mightily, nobody had ever created a genetic double of man's best friend. Not, that is, until South Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang and his team at Seoul National University brought Snuppy the puppy into the world--an animal whose entire genome came from a single cell from the ear of a three-year-old Afghan hound. Snuppy's arrival, announced in Nature last week, earned grudging admiration from rival cloners...
...surrogate bitch. Cows, goats and sheep can be thrown into estrus--readiness for pregnancy--by giving them a hormone shot. Not dogs. "You have to monitor hundreds, if not thousands, of dogs every day to figure out when they come into heat," says Westhusin. That's why Hwang's team--which stays on the job seven days a week for 18 to 20 hours a day--was well matched for the task. "We had to be ready to collect oocytes at any time of day, even midnight or early morning," says Hwang, adding, in a masterpiece of understatement. "Our work...
...very creative idea." It's not clear, though, what penalties Kim might face if he doesn't take the deal, or pushes for more baubles, such as new power plants. Rice asserted that the North must make "a strategic decision" to give up its nuclear weapons. But, asks Balbina Hwang, a North Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., "What if they have?and their strategic decision is not to give up their nukes?" In that case, prospects for settlement of this crisis will remain as dim as the lights in Kim's benighted kingdom...
...Cloned human beings are merely a science-fiction fantasy. I can assure you that on this globe, you'll never bump into a cloned human being, at least within 100 years." HWANG WOO SUK, South Korean scientist who last year was the first to clone a human embryo, on the state of the controversial technology...
...Hwang said that he’d expect to turn the stem cell bank over eventually to an international oversight committee...