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...precisely the way people do, for example. They don't have monthly menstrual cycles, and their neurological and immune systems differ in important ways. Much better to have a more closely related animal with body systems that are more like ours--which is why primate center senior scientist Gerald Schatten and his colleagues decided to try manipulating the genes of the Rhesus monkey, a close cousin to humans and already the mainstay of many medical experiments...
...scientists in Oregon have taken a tiny step toward doing what many scientists have said no scientist would ever want to do--use genetics to change, improve or enhance our children. Sticking genes into eggs and growing a healthy monkey means that someday scientists could and most likely would insert genes into human eggs to try to make kids smarter, stronger, faster, healthier or happier than their parents...
...cell-phone industry's best-known naysayer is George Carlo, a scientist who once headed a controversial five-year, $25 million industry-sponsored study of possible radiation hazards. "I just don't want people to put these phones to the sides of their heads," says Carlo, who this month published a scathing book about his findings, called Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age (Carroll & Graf; $25). Carlo maintains that his data show plenty of cause for concern; he uses a hands-free headset that keeps his frequently busy mobile phone away from his brain. But J.E. Moulder...
...scientists await the clone's birth, other wildlife researchers express doubts about the project's conservation claims and think the wrong message is being sent. "We do not believe that cloning has any relevance to the routine management and conservation of endangered species," says David Wildt, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va. Instead, Wildt favors low-tech methods, like the artificial insemination used to breed the endangered black-footed ferret, which is now being reintroduced to the American West. "Our laboratory works all over the world with the rarest...
...secondary school, called K12, that will begin enrolling students in grades K-2 next fall and will eventually have students in every grade. Enrollees can download course material and exchange e-mail messages with a teacher. Bennett, who refers to himself as K12's "principal," has recruited Harvard computer scientist (and Unabomber victim) David Gelernter as his chief technology adviser, and is currently hiring a teaching staff. Gelernter has also criticized online teaching as mostly "games." K12's demanding courses are aimed primarily at home schoolers and will be based on the curriculum described in Bennett's recent book...