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Just ask Harvey C. Cantor, professor of pathology at the Medical School and a researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, who is getting his own national Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH...
...last, however. As NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus told a congressional subcommittee last week, it could take just one infertile couple, arguing that cloning provides their only chance to bear a child, to turn public opinion around...
...outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology. And even the outlawing of this technique--Britain, for example, forbids the cloning of humans--will fail. It is too simple, too replicable. No amount of regulation by the FDA or the NIH or even the FBI will stop...
...reporting back to him with their findings within 90 days. Later this week the House subcommittee on basic research will hold a hearing to address the same issues. The probable tone of those sessions was established last week when Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told another subcommittee that cloning a person is "repugnant to the American public...
...loving a child so much that it will happily raise another, identical child so that one of its kidneys or a bit of its marrow might allow the first to live. "The reasons for opposing this are not easy to argue," says John Fletcher, former ethicist for the NIH...