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...Virginia scientists, though, adapted a technique that has been used for more than a decade to select the sex of cows, horses and pigs. Working with U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist Lawrence Johnson, who invented the method, they stained sperm with a fluorescent dye that latches onto DNA. Measuring the glow of the sperm cells under laser light, they could gauge how much genetic material each one carried. As it happens, X chromosomes have about 2.8% more DNA than Ys. Once the sperm had been distinguished this way, an automated sorting machine separated the Xs from the Ys, and doctors...
...MiniDisc format makes compromises in audio quality, using a data-compression method that renders it less accurate than CDs. At $300 to $500, MiniDisc recorders are less costly than full-size CD recorders but far pricier than the portable players they aim to displace...
Smith, a celebrated playwright, is founder and director of the institute, a three-year project focusing on artistic collaboration as a method for expanding civic dialogue...
...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...
...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...