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From the people that brought you Dolly the Sheep and the people that brought you 50 cloned mice comes a new project: genetically engineered pigs. PPL Therapeutics in Edinburgh, Scotland, is teaming up with ProBio America for the potentially lucrative purpose of cloning pigs for animal-to-human transplants. "We are going to see if we can make their technique -- the Honolulu technique, used with mice -- work with pigs," said PPL chief Dr. Ron James...
Nobody at Roslin or PPL is talking about cloning humans. Even if they were, their procedure is obviously not practical--not as long as dozens of surrogates need to be impregnated for each successful birth. And that is probably a good thing, because it gives the public time to digest the news--and policymakers time to find ways to prevent abuses without blocking scientific progress. If the policymakers succeed, and if their guidelines win international acceptance, it may take a lot longer than the editorial writers and talk-show hosts think before a human clone emerges--even from the shadows...
...average biotech stock has doubled in two years and reached a four-year high. Following the cloning news out of Scotland, investors indiscriminately bid up stocks of cloning companies. Shares of PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, which helped fund the sheep-cloning research, jumped 16% in a day. There have been some genuine commercial successes, such as Biogen Inc.'s drug Avonex, approved last year to treat multiple sclerosis. Still, a dangerous froth is forming. "During the next six months you're going to see quite a few disasters," predicts Evan Sturza of Sturza's Medical Investment Letter...
...experiments, which were partially funded by PPL Therapeutics P.L.C., a commercial biotechnology company, have many potential applications, scientists...
...PPL retains the rights to the technique, which allows them to recover pharmacologically-significant proteins out of clones' milk. The company has applied for additional patents and retains the agricultural rights to the techniques...