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...most common defect--seen across most of the species that have been cloned so far--is a condition known as large-offspring syndrome. Those clones are born larger than normal and have trouble breathing in their first few weeks. Most of the surrogates that gave birth to them experience prolonged pregnancies and sluggish, difficult labors, which may have something to do with their distended and enlarged placentas. Some of Wilmut's cloned sheep were born with incomplete body walls, with muscles and skin around their abdomen that failed to properly join. Other scientists have reported abnormalities in kidney and brain...
...animals, their offspring are created by the natural merging of egg and sperm--not by the reprogramming of a mature cell--which may erase any reprogramming errors in the clone. The proof is that Dolly gave birth to five healthy lambs. Cloned cows, pigs and mice are also bearing normal offspring. But when clones mate with other clones, all bets are off. Mice created this way appear to accumulate more abnormalities with each generation...
...year beefing up quality control, two tests are planned for later this year. Despite the system's shakiness, the White House in 2002 ordered the Pentagon to build it, citing "the contemporary and emerging missile threat from hostile states." Because of the perceived urgency, the Pentagon relaxed its normal procurement rules and testing requirements...
...farmers of western Niger normally spend the first few months of every year filling their mud-brick storage bins with grain. But last November's harvest was a bad one, and many of the bins this year are only half-filled or empty. "It's not normal," says Amadou Salou, a farmer in the town of Male Haoussa, a few hours' drive north of the capital, Niamey. Sheltering under a tree from the scorching mid-day sun with other village elders, Salou sets out the equation. "We have too many mouths to feed and not enough food," he says. Despite...
...Gianni Agnelli, he says, would be impossible today. "Elkann must fulfill the role of chief stockholder. That means being less of a presence in the operation of the company than his grandfather." Berta said. "Back then Fiat acted like an institution in Italy. Fiat has to behave like a normal company." That's harder than it sounds. Gone are the days when nationalism and protectionism meant that as many of 85% of cars sold in Italy were Fiats. Now the company needs a genuinely global approach, which probably includes pursuing one-off, local alliances to build specific products, much like...