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...stood and sat and lay down in a 100-yard-long trash-strewn column. Many had only the clothes on their backs. Some had a bit of money stashed away in pockets, shoes and handbags or a few vital medications. Others had braved the rising waters with a beloved pet. A green parakeet chirped in a white cage on the tarmac. A lanky woman stood next to two cat carriers with her teenage son. Several dogs nosed through the debris, their leashes dragging on the ground behind them...
...future, however, may belong to whoever can figure out how to make all these imaging technologies work together. One approach combines the anatomical accuracy of CT imaging with the functional information provided by a type of nuclear scan called positron-emission tomography (PET). Still in its early days in the clinic, PET/CT could help doctors see how much of the cardiac muscle is still alive after a heart attack and whether a bypass operation, balloon angioplasty or stent surgery would help damaged areas recover...
...help pet owners. Cloning Snuppy (the name comes from "Seoul National University puppy") took nearly three years and cost millions of dollars. Hwang's ultimate motive, he says, is to create a research model for making stem cells that could cure disease in people. "Compared with rodents," he says, dog cells "are more similar to human stem cells." GS&C still wants to capture the Fido-cloning market, though, and company scientists are trying to reduce the inefficiencies. Even if they manage to clone a dog, says Ben Carlson, a company spokesman, it won't be cheap. "We're charging...
...Will I be able to clone my pet...
Cassius is a Miniature Schnauzer with oversized ears, who joined my household courtesy of the Naughty Pets store in Shanghai. The idea of keeping pets - naughty or otherwise - had long been taboo in the People's Republic of China. During the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao's Red Guards killed pet dogs by the tens of thousands, seeing them as symbols of the pampered bourgeoisie his Communist regime was out to eradicate. Even dogs being bred for their meat in southern China were exterminated, and gourmets dissuaded from tasting the rich flesh lest they become infected by class depravity...