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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...
Still, Dolly would be just a laboratory curiosity if no one could repeat Wilmut's breakthrough. And that's where Teruhiko Wakayama comes in. He's a 31-year-old Japanese postdoctoral student who was studying cloning as a hobby at the University of Hawaii, where his lab director, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, was famous for telling students "not to be afraid of asking crazy questions. The crazier the better...
WHOM YOU'LL SEE Bob Dole, Scott McNealy, Linda Wachner, Harvey Golub, Steve Case, Lou Gerstner, Richard Meier, Dr. Ian Wilmut and Colin Powell...
...Wilmut last week put the chances that Dolly was some sort of fetal-cell contamination at less than a million to one. Nonetheless, he and his colleagues are scrambling to track down any other tissue samples taken from Dolly's mom so they can perform the genetic tests that will determine, once and for all, if Dolly's DNA and her mom's DNA are identical...
...this comes as no surprise, says Stice, the chief scientist for Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass. After all, it took Wilmut's team 400 tries to create Dolly. Others attempting to reproduce the experiment could very easily find it takes 6,000 tries. Dolly, in other words, may turn out to be a fluke, not a fake. No matter what she is, it's looking less and less likely that we're going to see clones of Bill Gates or Michael Jordan anytime soon...