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Scottish scientists clone shee
NEW YORK (AP) — It is as if the
birds and the bees suddenly have
been rendered irrelevant.
Around the world, biologists
gathered at laboratory water-cool
ers Monday to assess the latest in
stallment in a gripping biotech soap
opera — the creation, as if by mag
ic, of a wee lamb named Dolly.
Scottish scientists have re
vealed that they used mammary
cells from adult ewes to create lit
tle Dolly and eight other lambs in
the spitting image — genetically —
of their ovine mothers.
“The whole thing is just a mind-
blower,” said Ursula Goodenough,
a geneticist at Washington Univer
sity in St. Louis.
The achievement raises count
less questions about fate, immor
tality and the nature of self, but
none of that will apply to humans or
anything else unless scientists can
duplicate their feat in other crea
tures. And years of failed experi
ments suggest that will not be easy.
“There’s certainly no way to
rule out the possibility, but I
wouldn’t wager an awful lot that it
would ever be successful in hu
mans in the foreseeable future,”
said David Kirk, an embryologist
at Washington University.
Even if it is, experts are split on
how similar a human clone would
be to its progenitor.
A clone would look almost
identical to the person who
spawned it, biologists said, but
personality or susceptibility to
some diseases could still vary
quite a bit.
Childhood nutrition and even
a mother’s experiences during
pregnancy can affect how a per
son turns out just as much as
genes do.
That means the chances of evil
Nazis reproducing dozens of little
Hitlers with blood from a hand
kerchief, as they did in the 1978
movie “The Boys from Brazil,” are
pretty remote. Never mind the fact
that blood cells do not have nuclei,
so there is no genetic material in
them to clone.
So it is a bit too early to mourn
the End Of Sex and declare a Brave
New World in which people have
first names and model numbers.
In fact, there seems to be
something unique about sheep
that makes them especially suit
able for cloning.
Researchers have tried for
decades to do the same trick with
frogs and mice, with no luck. Frogs
cloned from adults die in the tad
pole stage. And cloned mice do not
develop far beyond an undifferen
tiated ball of cells.
So what is it about sheep?
Nobody knows. But if someone
can figure it out, they may be able to
extend the cloning process to pigs,
cows, maybe even people.
That would be a boon to the
biotechnology industry, which could
use the Scottish cloning process to
Senator returns to
work after arrest
AUSTIN (AP) — Returning to
work for the first time since his arrest
on sex and firearms charges, Sen.
Drew Nixon said Monday he was
embarrassed but ready to move on.
Nixon, R-Carthage, missed two
days last week after his arrest for al
legedly trying to hire an Austin po
lice officer posing as a prostitute.
Police also said Nixon was carry
ing a loaded, 9-mm handgun in his
car at the time of his arrest last Tues
day night.
Nixon has been charged with
prostitution, a Class B misde
meanor. He also faces a charge of
unlawfully carrying a weapon, a
Class A misdemeanor.
On his first day back in the Capi
tol, Nixon said he deserved to be
embarrassed but was ready to con
tinue his legislative duties.
Nixon presented a bill to the Sen
ate Jurisprudence Committee re
garding speed limits and defensive
driving courses. No action was taken
on the bill and members of the com
mittee did not discuss Nixon’s return
to the Capitol.
On the Senate floor, Nixon intro
duced a group of constituents and
passed a resolution in their honor.
He sent a letter of apology to fellow
lawmakers but said taking up Sen
ate time to discuss his situation
would not be appropriate.
“I can assure you I will take what
ever steps are necessary to see that
this type of incident does not occur
again to bring shame on myself and
those around me,” Nixon wxote.
He said hehelieved fellow law
makers also are ready to move
forward.
“They understand I’m going
through a tough time — not neces
sarily condoning it,” Nixon said. “I
think they are going to look at each
one of my proposals on its merits,
whether it’s good or bad, and that’s
the way it should be. I don’t think
they are going to let this reflect on
their votes on particular pieces of
legislation.”
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Cloning breakthrough
Years of failed experiments suggest it
won’t be easy to duplicate the feat of
genetic engineering that created Dolly,
the cloned sheep. Scientists fused 277
eggs; only one led to a lamb.
Scientists cultivated cells from a ewe’s
udder tissue in a lab, using a treatment
that made the cells essentially dormant.
The nucleus of an unfertilized sheep egg
was removed.
They fused the ewe’s cells to the egg
cells with an electric current.
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The eggs, now
equipped with a
nucleus, grew
into embryos as
if they’d been
fertilized. The
embryos were
put into ewes to
develop.
make specially designed pigs and
cattle for organ transplantation.
“Pigs are of great interest to be
used as organ donors for humans,”
said James Robl, a professor of vet
erinarian animal science at the Uni
versity of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Pigs are advantageousfe
plants because they haven
roughly the same size as
spending human parts and
susceptible to mad cow diset
related afflictions that
passed to humans.
Prices for natural ga
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CHICAGO (AP) — Sharon
Brown did a double take after
opening her February gas bill for
her three-bedroom house.
“The price went from $39 on
the budget plan to $73.1 thought
they’d inverted the numbers,”
the Philadelphia woman said.
"They said they had to raise it,
but that makes no sense because
I’m not using any more than I
did last year.”
Consumers across much of
the nation are suffering from
sticker shock as they get sharply
higher gas bills, despite a rela
tively mild winter.
Soaring heating oil prices
drew national attention early this
winter, while prices for natural
gas quietly surged to all-time
highs amid concern there would
not be enough supply to last
through the heating season.
Natural gas heats the majority
of American homes.
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weather last winter that virtually
depleted stored supplies and
forced utilities to pay more dur
ing the summer to replenish.
Prices rose even higher as tempera
tures well below normal gripped
much of the countiy through the
fall and early winter.
Utilities raised rates as much
as 50 percent, prompting a bar
rage of complaints and public
hearings. Utility prices are regu
lated by each state.
The Illinois Commerce Com
mission asked the state’s gas util
ities to account for their increas
es, while New Mexico’s Public
Utilities Commission ordered
rates lowered. New York state
lawmakers scheduled hearings
for this week to investigate the
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