Word: sheep
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...year and a half since Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut presented Dolly, the cloned sheep, to an astonished world, ethicists and policymakers have been struggling with the unsettling implications of his research. Could scientists use Wilmut's method to clone not just sheep but also billionaires, basketball players and bodies grown for spare parts? Should medical entrepreneurs be allowed to pursue cloning wherever it leads? Or should the government step in now and outlaw it before it starts...
What makes Dolly and these new mice special--and distinguishes them from barnyards of previously cloned pigs, cows and sheep--is that they were cloned from adult cells or, as the scientists call them, differentiated cells. All those earlier clones were made from fetal cells, which have no specialized function but carry the potential to turn into anything and everything the body needs...
...Conceding defeat in the clone wars, James admitted that ProBio's microinjection method of cloning was "quite a bit more efficient" than the method used to create Dolly. The famous sheep, after all, was born only after 287 failed attempts at stimulating embryos. By contrast, scientists at Honolulu made cloning mice look like baking cookies...
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...
...mentioned earlier, the lines of the musical are identical to those of the movie, but this repetition remains endearing at first. Then Belle (Erin Dilly) struts onto stage, and everything changes. What Disney marketed in the cartoon as a socially misfitted but introspective heroine who reads aloud to sheep has morphed onstage into a bubbly, happy Broadway baby with a voice so perfectly tuned for the stage that there's not too much room for real emotion or passion. So much for the changing face of American musical theater...