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...enough when Scottish researchers cloned a sheep named Dolly and commentators started writing about virgin births and Frankenstein. But then one week later, researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center let it be known that they had cloned a pair of rhesus monkeys, named Neti (for nuclear embryo transfer infant) and Ditto, that squinted in the glare of the TV lights and clung to each other for dear life...
...already taken a tentative step towards reassuring the public last week when he asked a federal commission to study the legal and ethical implications of cloning, and a House panel will take up the matter later this week. An Administration official said that the recent cloning of two rhesus monkeys, a move that inched cloning science closer to replicating humans, prompted the decision. While no human cloning projects currently receive government funds, existing regulations do not explicitly rule out the possibility. But no laws currently in place prevent privately funded operations from carrying out research on human cells, and even...
BEAVERTON, Ore.: The science of cloning climbed a little higher on the evolutionary tree with the announcement that scientists at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton have successfully cloned a rhesus monkey. Unlike Dolly, the wonder sheep who was cloned from an adult animal, the monkeys were duplicated at the embryonic stage, a less dramatic breakthrough. But the success in cloning a primate has researchers salivating. "What we want to do is establish an immortal cell line, something like an embryonic stem cell line, where you can produce literally unlimited numbers of these things," Donald Wolf, a senior...
...less live longer. But a new study may show that primates -- perhaps even people -- also live longer, healthier lives if they consume fewer calories per day. The theory is that lowering calories resets the body's metabolism so that it operates more efficiently. A 10-year study of rhesus and squirrel monkeys found that the underfed animals have lower blood pressure and better cholesterol. Perhaps the most striking finding: underfed animals look as though they will be protected from heart disease. Their levels of high-density lipoprotein -- the good cholesterol that helps keep blood flowing smoothly through the arteries...
...less live longer. But a new study may show that primates -- perhaps even people -- also live longer, healthier lives if they consume fewer calories per day. The theory is that lowering calories resets the body's metabolism so that it operates more efficiently. A 10-year study of rhesus and squirrel monkeys found that the underfed animals have lower blood pressure and better cholesterol. Perhaps the most striking finding: underfed animals look as though they will be protected from heart disease. Their levels of high-density lipoprotein -- the good cholesterol that helps keep blood flowing smoothly through the arteries...