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Seed to clone himself, one way or another [CNN]
Hi,
It seems that scientist in general may soon be forced to roam from country
to country to practice their work.
Shades of Neuromancer. I am more and more convinced that Gibson's book, and
it's social commentary, is right on the mark.
Forwarded message:
> X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9809/07/clone.seed.ap/
> CHICAGO PHYSICIST SAYS HE'LL CLONE HIMSELF WITH WIFE'S HELP
>
> Dr. Richard Seed Richard Seed September 7, 1998
> Web posted at: 3:50 a.m. EDT (0750 GMT)
>
> BOSTON (AP) -- A physicist with three Harvard degrees but no medical
> license said he is ready to begin the first step toward immortality:
> he will clone himself.
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> Seed said his wife, Gloria, has agreed to carry an embryo that would
> be created by combining the nucleus of one of his cells with a donor
> egg, the newspaper said.
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> The Chicago scientist has three Harvard degrees, including a Ph.D.,
> but no medical degree, no money and no institutional backing. He has
> vowed to produce a pregnancy with a human clone within 2 1/2 years.
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> Two states, California and Michigan, have outlawed human cloning and
> dozens of other states are considering bans.
>
> A five-year moratorium on cloning is apparently being observed by
> mainstream scientists, but Congress has failed to act on legislation
> to outlaw the procedure.
>
> Seed has said that if Congress bans cloning, he will move his
> operation to Tijuana, Mexico.
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