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...welcome it!" In the musty office of the Association of Gusle Players and Epic Poets in a downtown hotel, Mitar Djogo is similarly defiant. After playing a few notes on the gusle, a primitive, one-stringed instrument that produces a noise akin to the bleating of sheep, Djogo says, "All Herzegovina will rise to defend...
...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...
...cloners also send the animals before us. First, last year, came the single sheep Dolly. Now the 50 mice. First the individual, then the horde. Charles Lindbergh crossed dangerous virgin atmosphere to get over the Atlantic to Paris in 1927; that same air is now dense with flying auditoriums of people...
...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...