Word: labs
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...find ways to prevent abuses without blocking scientific progress. If the policymakers succeed, and if their guidelines win international acceptance, it may take a lot longer than the editorial writers and talk-show hosts think before a human clone emerges--even from the shadows of some offshore renegade lab. "How long?" asks PPL's James. "Hopefully, an eternity...
...busy morning in the cloning laboratory of the big-city hospital. As always, the list of people seeking the lab's services is a long one--and, as always, it's a varied one. Over here are the Midwestern parents who have flown in specially to see if the lab can make them an exact copy of their six-year-old daughter, recently found to be suffering from leukemia so aggressive that only a bone-marrow transplant can save her. The problem is finding a compatible donor. If, by reproductive happenstance, the girl had been born an identical twin...
Also waiting in the cloning lab this morning is the local industrialist. Unlike the Midwestern parents, he does not have a sick child to worry about; indeed, he has never especially cared for children. Lately, however, he has begun to feel different. With a little help from the cloning lab, he now has the opportunity to have a son who would bear not just his name and his nose and the color of his hair but every scrap of genetic coding that makes him what he is. Now that appeals to the local industrialist. In fact, if this first...
...When he dies, one of the most remarkable minds in science will die with him. Reproductive chance might one day produce another scientist just as gifted, but there is no telling when. The physics laureate does not like that kind of uncertainty. He has come to the cloning lab today to see if he can't do something about...
Kishi has led an Eisai lab in Andover, Mass. since 1980. Reasearch in the lab focuses on developing compounds that may be useful as drugs...