From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 08:58:33 MDT
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,55043,00.html
A new study on cloning shows more than ever it's probably a very bad
idea to replicate human beings.
The study, performed by researchers at the Whitehead Institute for
Biomedical Research in Boston, found that cloning to create new animals
will almost always create an abnormal creature.
...and...
"It looks to me that this issue is dead for this session of Congress,"
he* said. "That means at the moment there's no legislation for
continuing to do therapeutic cloning, or even to clone a person, which
is stupid. They should have passed a prohibition on cloning people and
let it go at that."
* - "he" being Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate and professor of biochemistry
at Stanford University School of Medicine
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Unfortunately, I couldn't find the study as cited in the report.
Needless to say, it's discouraging to see things like this in the media.
-crw.
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