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...week after news of the achievement first flew around the globe, traces of astonishment linger in the air like a contrail. The landmark paper published late last week in the journal Nature confirmed what the headlines had been screaming for days: researchers at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, had indeed pulled off what many experts thought might be a scientific impossibility. From a cell in an adult ewe's mammary gland, embryologist Ian Wilmut and his colleagues managed to create a frisky lamb named Dolly (with apologies to Ms. Parton), scoring an advance in reproductive technology as unsettling...
...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...
...Lacrosse vs. Japan & Scotland...
...Lacrosse at Japan & Scotland...
...Lacrosse at Japan & Scotland...