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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