Cloning License for Dolly's Doc 290
Rollie Hawk writes "Ian Wilmut, leader of Dolly the sheep's team and Professor at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, has been given the green light by the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to start further cloning research. As a matter of fact, he is now a licensed human cloner.
The license has a duration of one year and is the second of its kind given by Britain, the first country to officially sanction human cloning research.
Research will be focusing on motor neurone disease (MND). The team hopes to perform cell nuclear replacement on the skin cells of MND victims in order to create stem cells, the jack-of-all-trades of the cell family and the supposed magic bullets for ailments ranging from Alzheimer's to paralysis.
welcome (Score:5, Funny)
as long as they all look like the olsen twins.
Clones in the news again? (Score:2, Funny)
Clone rights (Score:5, Funny)
10 print "clones are people" $d
20 let $d = pun
30 gosub hilarity
Re:So..... (Score:5, Funny)
Some guy who looks just like him.
License to copy (Score:3, Funny)
Something tells me he wouldn't have a problem creating a fake ID if he really needed one.
Oh noooo!!! (Score:3, Funny)
What the US does well is... (Score:3, Funny)
And condemning things to Hell.
Oh! And getting fat. We have more fat than the rest of the world combined.
Re:should I write a novel? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm against cloning (Score:2, Funny)
(Shudder). Just imagine the horror: a world in the grips of stale dialogue, bad acting, the lack of real suspense or characters you can care about...
copyright issues? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:welcome (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Thank you Bush! (Score:3, Funny)
Music, movies, microcode, high-speed pizza delivery. Now, come on, this is pretty basic stuff from your introductory-level geek courses...
Re:What the US does well is... (Score:3, Funny)