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Unfortunately, the hype was mixed with a good deal of confusion. The scientists in question had not succeeded in mass-producing viable embryos from a single embryo's DNA, as the Times suggested. Their experiment, in fact, was remarkably simple. Using an abnormally fertilized egg which had begun the normal...
As soon as Caplan heard the news from the American Fertility Society meeting, he phoned Gina Kolata, the reporter at the New York Times who broke the story. As a result, Caplan helped shape the discussion that followed. For example, although Hall's technique cannot produce more than two or...
German officials were quick to point out that the experiment Hall and Stillman conducted -- cloning a human embryo -- would be considered a federal offense in Germany, punishable by up to five years in prison. "The Americans do not even have our scruples," complained Rudolf Dressler, deputy whip of the Social...
Hall and Stillman discovered this, to their dismay, in the glare of publicity. At an impromptu press conference the evening the story broke, and in subsequent appearances on Nightline, Good Morning America and Larry King Live, the bewildered scientists tried to keep the discussion focused on the facts of their...
After an experiment in which two U.S. researchers made carbon copies of human embryos, the whole world debated whether science had finally stepped over the line.