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Last week, the Senate voted against a Republican bill that would have permanently outlawed a process by which the nucleus of a human somatic cell is inserted into an egg cell to create a human embryo...
...cells, however, is another matter. Biologists are already talking about harnessing for medical purposes the technique that produced the sheep called Dolly. They might, for example, obtain healthy cells from a patient with leukemia or a burn victim and then transfer the nucleus of each cell into an unfertilized egg from which the nucleus has been removed. Coddled in culture dishes, these embryonic clones--each genetically identical to the patient from which the nuclei came--would begin to divide...
...cleans the table but leaves unanswered the obvious question. If the egg comes out in the direction it does and the eyes point the other, how does...
...company, Fertility & Genetics Research Inc., seemed promising. But the procedure was cumbersome--it involved flushing embryos out of the uterus of the egg donor--and was soon eclipsed by in-vitro fertilization. Ultimately the venture failed. Indeed, Seed in recent years appears to have suffered some financial reversals. Until last summer he and his third wife Gloria lived in a two-story Victorian house in Oak Park. But the bank foreclosed on their $341,000 mortgage, and they were forced to move to a modest bungalow in nearby Riverside. "I had a beautiful house," sighs Seed. "It's very difficult...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...