Cloning News From Online Newspapers and Magazines 
 
After Dolly: Cumulina and Her Clones Nature Magazine Cover Story Image
"After Dolly: Cumulina and Her Clones"
Nature Magazine Cover Story
articles about the Cumulina
breakthrough from
The New York Times on the Web
  • A Flock of Clones Nature Magazine Cover Story Image
  • "A Flock of Clones"
    Nature Magazine Cover Story
     

    A New Scientist Cloning News Resource An extensive and very useful set or articles and links.
     
    A Radio Broadcast from NPR:  The entire NPR program in which Dr. Richard Seed, A Harvard physicist and researcher/coordinator of IVF techniques, is interviewed about his plans to set up a Human Clone Clinic either i Chicago or the Bahamas.  One needs a RealAudio player plug-in for his/her browser to hear the streaming audio.  with this plug-in, the "download" time is nearly nonexistent because the audio is played as it is received/transmitted over the Internet!  Science and technology are wonderful aren't they?
     
    An article from Johns Hopkins University online The article describes the ethics committee approved plans of a south African doctor, Dr. Mohamed Cassim plans to clone either the husband or wife for "desperate" infertile couples.
     
    A Superb Online Experience From Time Magazine:  There are about 6 introductory frames with ponderous quotes, animation and interesting music.  After this there are 3 sections all of which tend to have media photos and audio along with the text.  First the story is told then the future implications and finally ethics are considered.  At the end highlights from an online chat of bioethicists is presented and a live chat forum is made available.  (The cloning chat topic has long since March of '96 petered out.)  Also, you can still participate in an online survey... actually as many times as you want.  "Vote early and often" as they have said in Chicago.  :-)

    An Online Science Magazine for Laymen Explains How Dolly Was Cloned.

    Adult Human Cloning Bioethical Forum The magazine New Scientist hosts a bioethical forum on the pros and cons of cloning humans.

    Discourse on Human Cloning Patrick Dixon of CyberMagazine and Director of Global Contact Global Change discusses the issues raised with the arrival of human cloning.

    Clone Digest electronic magazine An electronic magazine that reports events in cloning research worldwide especially that of primates and the "probability" of human cloning
     

    The New York Times Online: There is a slightly annoying registration process that is free (but you need to remember your password - hmm they can monitor your frequency of access and limit how often you arrive?)  It is worth it though.  Go to these sites and download/save them in case you can't get the information later:

    Forums: 
    (similar to newsgroups but, i believe, a different computer protocol involved -
    maybe the host computer automates the newsgroup process)
    Several magazines have set up special forums to share your own views and read those of others.
    Here is a sample:
    The New York Times has many different forums to choose from but the one that includes cloning and related topics is called Mysteries of the Universe and is hosted much like newsgroup digests.  Within this forum group is a sub-group called The Clones Are Coming.
    New Scientist also has a Bioethics Forum that focuses on cloning.

    "The Exploratorium's Ethical Scenarios Forum (ETHEX) is an Internet listserv developed for the Exploratorium exhibition 'Diving Into the Gene Pool' beginning in April, 1995. With the cooperation
    of members of the International Bioethics Institute, Exploratorium staff, visitors, and remote users discuss topics around the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project and  other genetics topics." This is a quote from the page itself.  Especially if you read The Clones Are Coming you can see how the Human Genome Project is the future of biology and modern 21st Century molecular medicine.  The information collected from this project is stored in a database called Online Mendalian Inheritance In Man (OMIM) and catalogs all of the genes discovered through the project.

     
     
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