From: Brian Atkins (jbatkins@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Oct 19 1997 - 14:54:51 MDT
It was in today's Atlanta Constitution, section B, page 1.
Done by people at Bath University. There was a quote from
a professor Jonathan Slack:
"Instead of growing an intact embryo, you could genetically
reprogram the embryo to suppress growth in all the parts of
the body except the bits you want, plus a heart and blood
circulation"
Apparently, they are going to raise these things in some kind
of artificial womb, and believe that "incomplete" embryos
could bypass legal restrictions/ethical concerns.
Thom Quinn wrote:
>
> Where did they do this? What paper did you read this in?
> Anyone have a hyperlink?
>
> Thom Q
> > In the paper today- British scientists have created headless frogs,
> > and believe the technique could be used to create headless human
> > clones for the purposes of organ transplants. Cool.
> > --
> > The future has arrived; it's just not evenly distributed.
> > -William Gibson
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