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...boys, so they have to use their imaginations, a process that results in bikini-clad girls draped over cut-outs of show stars as though they were the latest Ford Thunderbird. Other stands touting wildlife programs offered you the exciting opportunity to be photographed with a small mammal and a show host, usually clad in what looked like a jungle outfit from...
...cloning technique used with Bessie--the only cow in the experiment to carry an embryo into late pregnancy--is a variation of the procedure that created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal. A needle is jabbed through an egg's protective layer and used to remove the egg's nucleus, containing most of a cell's genetic material. A second needle is used to inject a whole cell under the egg's outer layer. To complete the process, an electrical current fuses the new cell to the egg. The embryo starts to divide until, within days...
...University claims as intellectual property any mammal genetically altered to express oncogenes, the genes that cause cancer. Harvard has licensed this technology to Delaware chemical giant DuPont, Inc. which sublicenses the rights around the world. As part of the license agreement, DuPont pays the massive legal bills that have been generated by years of litigation...
...babies a nutritional kick start in life. The very idea of mammalian metabolism is a subtler case of maternal self-sacrifice. An organism taking in precious calories and then giving them away in the form of milk directly defies the me-first rule of all animal survival, yet mammal mothers do it willingly...
Dolly was once an awfully lonely sheep. When the famously cloned animal made headlines in 1997, she was the only mammal ever to be manufactured from the cell of an adult donor. Since then, the clone ranks have swelled, with mice and cattle also toddling out of the labs. Last week cloning technology took another step forward when an international biotechnology company announced that it had created a litter of five genetically identical piglets, and that it had a pretty good idea of how they could one day be used: as organ donors for ailing humans...