Word: markert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johns were confronted with the findings before they were published. Some confessed, some denied. John Markert, 51, executive secretary of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, had testified four years ago against decriminalizing prostitution; Markert denied the Star's allegations. So did Minneapolis Assistant City Attorney Allen Hyatt, who has prosecuted prostitutes...
Though cloning mammals by the classic method is a long way off, scientists are moving closer to cloning mice by an indirect route. In this technique, devised by Yale Biologist Clement Markert, eggs are removed from a female mouse shortly after fertilization. At this early stage, genetic material from egg and sperm have not yet mixed; the mother's and father's genes are still in two distinct sacs, called pronuclei. Using microsurgery, Markert removes either pronucleus. The egg is then exposed to a chemical that causes the remaining pronucleus to replicate, thus giving the cell a full...
...same procedure is another story. Homo sapiens is a mongrel breed. Unlike domesticated or laboratory animals, man has not had harmful and even lethal genes bred out of him. These genes remain in humans, many as recessives, suppressed by dominant normal genes. If humans could be cloned by Markert's method, these recessive genes could come to the fore and express themselves, causing deformities and genetic illnesses, even death...
Lucky for Rorvik. Cancer Researcher Beatrice Mintz called Image "unquestionably a work of fiction." She characterized the book as "mildly amusing, though not in ways intended by the author," and said that it was full of "scientific boners." Charged Geneticist Clement Markert: "Rorvik is guilty of false and misleading advertising." Others noted that no mammals, let alone humans, had yet been cloned. They voiced concern that tracts like Image, passed off as present fact, might cause public reaction against cloning techniques used in cancer, aging and other important medical research...