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LOUISVILLE, Ky: Don't tell Dolly, but she may have been a mistake. The Scottish scientist who cloned the world's most famous ewe more than 12 months ago now reports a "remote possibility" that he used a fetal cell to create her rather than an adult cell. What's the difference? About a year's worth of attention from the world press, since scientists have been able to "clone" animals from fetal cells for about two decades now. As Ian Wilmut of Scotland's Roslin Institute sheepishly admitted to a genetics forum at the University of Louisville, fetal cells...
Like global warming, El Nino--or rather, the climate cycle that produces El Nino--does not generate weather per se: rather it alters the context in which weather takes place. The distinction here is a critical one. "Climate," as social scientist Michael Glantz, formerly of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, likes to say, "is what you expect. Weather is what...
Where indeed? While all these climate cycles seem to involve both atmosphere and oceans, more and more scientists are abandoning their long-held belief that the former runs the show. The atmosphere is fickle, they observe. Storms form, then quickly dissipate, so whatever information they contain about the conditions that created them is quickly lost. By contrast, ocean gyres take anywhere from 10 to 20 years to complete a single journey, making them perfect vehicles for transmitting messages into the future. With the exception of the tropical Pacific, unfortunately, the oceans are even less well monitored than the surface...
...highlight of the program this year was a panel discussion that included a forensic scientist, a meteorologist and a patent lawyer, Arnott said...
...commentary Charles Krauthammer claims to have discovered the hidden agenda of scientists who want to pursue cloning technology: the creation of headless human bodies [ESSAY, Jan. 19]. This, he alleges in mock excitement, would be "cloning's crowning achievement." I was the main scientist that Krauthammer cast in the role of Dr. Frankenstein. As he reported, I opined that it would be "possible" to produce human bodies without a forebrain and that it would be "legal" to keep such individuals alive. What Krauthammer failed to report was what I also said in a phone conversation with him: the purposeful creation...