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Firm that cloned embryo received US grant
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| 11/29/2001
| By Denise Gellene and Elizabeth Mehren Los Angeles Times
Posted on 11/29/2001 7:16:08 PM PST by It'salmosttolate
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The Massachusetts company condemned by the Bush administration for its efforts to clone a human embryo received a federal grant last month to conduct biotechnology research.
Advanced Cell Technology's human cloning experiments set off a national controversy last week that is renewing demands that Congress ban all cloning of human cells.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clonelist
To: It'salmosttolate
The Clintonista Criminal Commerce Dept. rearing its ugly head again (of course, cowardly gop did nothing).
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posted on
11/29/2001 7:22:56 PM PST
by
jungleboy
To: jungleboy
Now they're cloning singers. The first one: Rosemary Cloney.
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posted on
11/29/2001 7:32:43 PM PST
by
jraven
To: jungleboy
Well, let's see, if the company goes to work on fusing the nuclear material from a particularly fine bovine specimen, and succeeds, at what point do they consider they've started the new clone on its lifetime, such that they will protect the newly conceived embryonic life all the way through birth from a momma cow? ... Oh really! Does that mean it is the clone animal from conception onward? ... Ahhh, but human animals only begin being human at some point after several weeks or months from conception. Yeah, I've been told humans are special, somehow above the rest of the animal kingdom, but I did realize ...
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11/29/2001 7:42:06 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
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