One step closer to the Boys from Brazil

[formercia]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7094215.stm


Breakthrough in primate cloning

Experts have for the first time created cloned embryos from adult monkeys - a technical breakthrough that could bring efficient human cloning a step closer.

A team in the US created dozens of cloned embryos from a 10-year-old macaque monkey, Nature journal reports.

Human cloning has been dogged by controversies over faked research and technical difficulties.

But the new technique could lead to the efficient cloning of human embryos for use in research.

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"I'll be back."

he was heard to say

as they hauled him off to the Hague.

[shadowknows69]

1. Did Prescott Bush know Mengele by any chance?

BFB one of my first "adult" novels I read as an adolescent. Incredible tale by Ira Levin if you've never read it.

[BB1]

2. Same here, shadow.

I got all worried about the Lebensbornkinder as well. He just died yesterday (Ira Levin, that is).

[formercia]

3. Poppy did spend some time in Argentina in 1946

perhaps he brought more home than a leather jacket...




The movie is great as well.

[IDemo]

4. No, but there was that visit to the San Diego zoo by Poppy