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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
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Category: Cloning
Finally: A long-awaited final report from the Food and Drug Administration concludes that foods from healthy cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as those from ordinary animals, effectively removing the last U.S. regulatory barrier to the marketing of...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 5:28 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Cloning
The FDA -- after years of twiddling their thumbs because of the irrational fears of "consumer" groups -- has finally approved cloned food for human consumption: After years of delay, the Food and Drug Administration tentatively concluded yesterday that milk...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:23 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Cloning
New Scientist is reporting on a movement among some scientists to replace the word "cloning" with "somatic cell nuclear transfer": Don't say cloning, say somatic cell nuclear transfer. That at least is the view of biologists who want the term...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:53 AM • 3 Comments •
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