Gotta be a typo. Probably those Iraelians at work again.
Posted on 08/09/2006 9:31:39 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Iranian doctors have overseen the country's first animal cloning a lamb that died minutes after birth and plan future experiments in genetics and stem cell research, a member of the team said Wednesday.
Iran's program is part of the Islamic regime's ambitions to become a regional center for medical, aerospace and nuclear technology which has led to an international showdown over Western claims that Tehran also seeks atomic weapons.
"We learned a lot about cloning during the experiment. It made us more hopeful about further cases," said Dr. Morteza Hosseini, a member of cloning team at Isfahan Royan Institute in central Iran.
Hosseini said the cloned sheep died five minutes after birth Aug. 2 due to respiratory problems. The female sheep implanted with the cloned embryo gave birth a week ahead of schedule and was healthy, he said.
Hosseini said Iranian researchers in Tehran and Isfahan expect to carry out more cloning experiments over the coming months.
The program has won backing from Iran's Shiite Muslim religious leaders, who have issued religious decrees authorizing animal cloning but banning any such experiments with humans. A majority of Iran's nearly 70 million people are Shiites, which comprise about 15 percent of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.
Many Sunni Muslim clerics, however, have spoken against cloning in any form.
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Yeah, I believe that......
I think the Iranians cloned a rat too. He's their President, little Rat Face as I call him.
Well we already knew they cloned an ASS...............
"(running out of virgins?)"
LOL. Good one.
Hysterical headline. :-)
When you find that special sheep, why not clone it for all?
Scary thought, the Iranians cloning! Then they'd never run out of homicide bombers! Sounds like just one more reason to drop the big one now!
REminds me of Gene Wilder and getting drunk on Woolite.
Gotta be a typo. Probably those Iraelians at work again.
When are they installing the warhead?
Some one should tell them that splitting a sheep in half does not constitute a clone.
They need more sheep since they are running out of virgins for the martyrs.
The people who run the Iranian Mail-Order Sheep businesses and the Tehran Sheep Bars must be thrilled with this news.
It's a typo. The word was "boned"....
Cloning is stupid and against nature.
HAHA! We could send a pig bomb, too, for good measure.
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