From: Max More (maxmore@primenet.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 1997 - 19:04:18 MST
At 04:42 PM 2/23/97 -0800, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
>I don't see anything of the sort. In fact, I'm rather dismayed that
>the press is treating this cloning success as something interesting,
>when it's really nothing special or useful at all.
It will make rapid production of new drugs by transgenic means easier. I'd
count that as useful. Sorry, I don't have the URL, but on today's Nando
Times science and health pages there's a report on the cloning news with a
link to this application.
>nd a clone of yourself, while it might
>be nice to have a child with 100% of your genes instead of 50%, would
>probably die young after being infected with germs from you that have
>had 100s of generations to adapt to your--and therefore his--immune
>system.
Good point. But couldn't you get around that by infusing the "experienced"
blood into the fresh clone?
Max
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