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| In an extract from his new book,
Ian Wilmut considers the moral and ethical implications of cloning. |
| First, there was Dolly
— the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. For six years, she was
a star munching happily in her stall, growing ever fatter and making headlines
across the world. And then, a year later, came a clone called Polly. Poor Polly
was an also-ran in terms of media coverage. But, in many ways, her birth in 1997
thrilled me just as much. She was the first sheep to be given a human gene via
cloning — in her case, to make her milk rich in a clotting protein that could
be used to treat haemophiliacs ... | Read.. |
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| Bridging
the medical divide |
| Chandan Barui, 65, waited
for hours at a local dispensary in Purulia only to be told that he would have
to travel all the way to Calcutta to get prope ... | Read.. |
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| Stay
fit with iPod |
| If you have an iPod nano
and a pair of shoes that can accommodate just a speck of a sensor in the sole,
you can have the most rigorous and pleasurable ... | Read.. |
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| Danger
in the air |
Barbara Jarvis was a tall, slender, and very healthy woman living on Kauai, Hawaii’s
“garden island”. In her early 50s, she began to experience shortness
of breath, which she thought at first ... | Read.. |
| Blame
it on Hormones |
| Delaying pregnancy raises
the risk of developing breast cancer, reports Shibani Chattopadhyay ... |
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| Your
Health: Dr Gita Mathai |
 Living
with AIDS
It’s time the country wakes up to the dangers people living with HIV and
AIDS are exposed to. ... | Read.. |
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| Look
angry, get noticed |
Trying to get someone’s attention? Looking angry may be the key. The face
most likely to stand out in a crowd is an irate one, according to a new study,
and men are better than women at picking up the anger that a face conveys. ... |
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| Recommended:
A palaeontological
mystery |
EXTINCTION
Douglas H. Erwin
Princeton University Press; $ 24.95... | Read.. |
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| Reality
Check: Artificial sweeteners cause migraines |
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Why Corner
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| Why is it difficult to separate a wet glass slide
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