By: DAVID RICE
To: DAVE HAMILTON
Re: The Flock

>>>KY> Not like this was the first time.  A year ago, they
>>>KY> did the very same thing.

>>DH> ROTFL! Did you read about this in the same article
>>DH> that convinced you people who dig holes can hear
>>DH> screaming from hell?

>KY> Nope..  It was an AP article dated 3-7-96, and the
>KY> headline read, "Sheep Cloned, Could Be First Step
>KY> Toward Producing 'Super' Animals."

DH> But where is the evidence, the data. Could you provide
DH> the journal article where the experiment was published.
DH> I can't understand why it did not make media waves when
DH> the current peer-reviewed procedure did.

The lunatic is telling the truth.



   Friday, March 22, 1996 · Page A10
   (C) 1997 San Francisco Chronicle


   NOTES FROM ALL OVER
   Lewis Dolinsky


   I'D LIKE ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THE OTHER ONE

   Nature magazine reported the "manufacture" of
   Meg and Moray, Welsh lambs created by the Roslin
   Institute in Edinburgh from a single cell to
   which chromosomes had been fused with
   electricity. The idea is to make "supersheep" --
   more wool, tastier meat, easier to process
   because of their uniformity. When animals are
   bred the old-fashioned way -- artificial
   insemination -- the genes are dissipated.

   The logical extension is to create perfect
   people. "I cannot see why anybody would want to
   do such a thing," said a member of the Roslin
   team quoted in the Times of London. "That would
   be an appalling prospect." (And illegal in
   Britain.) Instead of one Hugh Grant stuttering
   charmingly and batting his eyelashes, you could
   have a room full.

   Even with cloned sheep, there are problems: The
   sheep are so big that they may have to be
   delivered by cesarean section. Giantism is what
   stopped a Houston experiment on cattle in the
   1980s.


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