Here is the news from CNN HOLLYWOOD, Florida (CNN) -- The controversial group Clonaid on Friday said a newborn girl called Eve is a clone.
The group's scientific director said the child was born Thursday in an unnamed country. Clonaid was founded by a religious movement called the Raelians, the doctrine of which believes that life on Earth was created by extraterrestrials.
If the cloning assertion is true, the birth would be the first ever human clone. Brigitte Boisselier, scientific director of Clonaid, made her statement at a news conference and has arranged for a physicist named Michael Guillen, former science correspondent for ABC News, to independently verify the claim.
Boisselier offered no immediate proof of her claim -- or photographs of the baby. She said the baby is healthy, and that the whole family is "very happy." She also said the baby's grandmother thinks she looks just like her mother.
She says the baby will go home in three days, and an independent expert will take DNA samples from the baby to prove she had been cloned. Those results are expected within a week after the testing.
Boisselier had told a congressional committee last year that she believed she had the knowledge to produce a human clone in the near future.
Clonaid, which calls itself the "first human cloning company," was founded in 1997. Boisselier is a bishop in the Raelian movement.
Claude Vorilhon, who founded the Raelians, told CNN in July 2001 that the long-term goal for human cloning is to live forever. Vorilhon says cloning a baby is only the first step: Eventually the group wants to learn how to clone an adult, then "transfer the brain to the clone."
Boisselier says the immediate purpose for cloning is to help infertile couples. Last November, she told CNN she was "indeed doing human cloned embryos and we have many cell divisions," but she wouldn't confirm any pregnancies.
No data released
To make a clone, scientists first take an egg and remove all of its genetic material. Then the nucleus of a cell -- any cell in the body -- is taken from the individual to be cloned and inserted into the hollowed-out egg.
The cell is then given a jolt of electricity or put in a chemical bath to activate cell division -- essentially tricking the cell into doing what a fertilized egg would normally do. Then the embryo is implanted into a woman's uterus to be carried to term.
It is unknown which exact procedure -- if any -- Clonaid used, because it has not published or released any data about its research.
Boisselier has not revealed the location of her current lab, only to say it is no longer in the United States. She used to have a lab in West Virginia, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration visited the lab and shut it down.
Scientists so far have successfully cloned sheep, cows, goats, mice, pigs and a rare wild ox. But human cloning is controversial, because the experience with animal cloning has shown a lot of potential for things to go wrong.
'One shouldn't do this'
Many animal cloners -- including Ian Wilmut, the Scottish researcher who successfully cloned the first animal, Dolly the sheep, in 1997 -- disapprove of human cloning. Wilmut has said it took 276 failed attempts before Dolly was successfully cloned.
"It is not responsible at this stage to even consider the cloning of humans, " said Rudolf Jaenisch, a biologist at MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, which clones mice.
Janeisch said that even if a human clone appears healthy, it may not be once it gets older. Cloning a human at this point, he said, without knowing more about why things go wrong, is "essentially using humans as guinea pigs, and one shouldn't do this."
According to Dr. Jon Hill, a veterinarian who successfully cloned cows at Texas A&M University, even clones who appear normal at birth often develop problems afterward.
"Their livers, their lungs, their heart, their blood vessels are often abnormal after birth," Hill said.
Few legal prohibitions
The Raelians are not the only group claiming to actively try to clone a human.
Italian doctor Severino Antinori made several announcements in recent months, claiming that a woman was carrying a human clone that would be born in January 2003. And former University of Kentucky professor Panos Zavos has also announced plans to clone a human, but he told CNN earlier this year he had not successfully created an embryo yet.
Scientists and bioethicists have questioned whether any of these groups have the ability to clone a human. Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, has said in the past that "we don't know how" to accomplish human cloning.
Legally, there's very little to stop scientists from cloning. In January, the National Academy of Sciences recommended a ban on human cloning, but only four states -- California, Michigan, Louisiana and Rhode Island -- ban any type of cloning research.
The FDA claims it has jurisdiction over human cloning based on the Public Health Service and Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. It says it would regulate the cloning process like a drug.
The book "More Guns, Less Crime" does a pretty good job of just looking at the numbers. When you look at the numbers, the spin the other groups put on a particular incident is lessened.
I agree, but for a different reason. If the system and programs are more open, the community can pour over the code to make sure there are no problems and if one is found, patch it. I wouldn't want the SW people to deny there is a bug in Heart Rate Monitor 2002 or Automatic Medicine Adjuster XP, when people are dying or meeting Lucy in the Sky from too much "happy juice."
where the guy is ordering a car and the dude with the tablet PC is painting it on the fly? Yea, thats the one. I wonder what would happen if his tablet BSODed on him and every car he made was BOSD blue with 0x0000000A memory addresses over the car ala racing stripes.
I really think the tablet PCs would have to be thin clients to conserve battery life. I also don't think that a M$ OS is the way to go. The bloat in OS would just use up so much memory and processor cycles, that the battery life would suffer. A thin client, with just a web browser(intranet, limited internet) and maybe a few small apps, such as a calculator, or life support monitor, etc etc. This is assuming that a sales person or a medical professional is using the device.
Anything goes if someone is watching DVDs and running SETI@Home in the background while downloading the latest Harry Potter. I wouldnt expect the battery to last that long at all. Then again, the same goes for normal protables.
Another factor to consider is heat. If the WinXP OS is running all sorts of junk in the background, the system will heat up considerably. Much like thier desktop brothers, the new pentiums and athlons/**You forgot my processor, you insensetive clod!*/, the new processors get HOT. Would you really hold a system like this, if it was reaching 150 degrees F? I wouldn't
But then again, this is nothing new. I think I've seen people with devices like this before. Usually, its all proprietary programs. They seem to work well, since its just a thin client with connections to a server somewhere.
..and make some real friends!! Leave these Sims alone.
Now, excuse me while I go play some Metriod Prime. Enters dark room, all alone with only some Diet Rite and some leftover turkey Ahh, sweet sweet bliss.
OK, I sent it in....
Lets see if this applies anymore:
* Badly worded subjects Check
* Broken or missing URLs Check
* Confusing or hysterical sounding writeup It was OK, I guess * It might be an old story Double check
* It might just be a busy day and we've already posted enough stories Riiiight, on thanksgiving? * Someone already submitted your story Double Check
* Your story just might not be interesting! Check, esp since its old news...
Its rare to see new CDs here in Texas for more than 11.99-13.99(Best Buy, Target). Sure, the older stuff is a little more. The only places that rip people off royally are in the mall (Suncoast, Sam Goody) Don't ever buy stuff there! Honestly, I don't know how they can stay in business with prices like that!
I remember the days when I would pay for X amount of hours on AOL(Please don't stone me, I was a foolish freshman in college) and I would monitor it super closely with that little clock thingy. Then, it became all you can eat access after a while. And now, they want this?
I really wouldnt want to waste my time limit / bandwidth limit on junk(Videos, Audio) some other junk the roadrunner people want me to see. You know what I mean?
I can imagine the newest teeny band video loading up in a little Windows Media Player window while I'm looking at ESPN or something like that.
Then the bill comes, and I think, "Mierda!, where did all my bandwith limit go?" Just tracking it would be a pain for me, and, much like Sprint PCS, I can see the cable co. charging me to see my bandwidth used.
My fellow geeks, at what point will we stand up and give them a Stone Cold(c) "Oh hell no!" ??
The telemarketers numbers show that people buy the junk they sell. One of the people I work with has bought tons of stuff from them, including Direct TV, Carpet Cleaner, and weight loss stuff.
So long as there are people like my co-worker, these guys are going to keep at it.
I used to use Netscape 7.I used the AIM, the eMail, everything. But, that bad boy would use up to 50,000k of my memory(so says the olde task manager) so it brought the system to a crawl...
Thanks to you guys, I now use Mozilla, which uses a lot too, but not near as much as Netscape.
Also, I understand there are no more pop ups on the web....
Duse, I work for dell, so I know first hand what us guys go through. Here are some of my favorite tales:
A guy is mad because his region 4 DVD player will not play the Playboy DVDs he bought
A guy tells me he will make my life hell and come after me because I would not give him a bios password for a portable.
A lady blames me for having to reinstall her OS(She had every P2P program on earth, along with every spyware you can think of, plus a virus or 2)
A guy asked me how to remove a picture from the desktop before his parents got home and how to remove that picture from the list of backgrounds.
A lady that said she would always get porno pop ups. Only her and her husband use the system.
Good times!
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I thought it was the coolest until the controllers went out on me. I couldnt even start the games after a while. Gladly, the NES saved gaming for me.
Here is the news from CNN HOLLYWOOD, Florida (CNN) -- The controversial group Clonaid on Friday said a newborn girl called Eve is a clone.
The group's scientific director said the child was born Thursday in an unnamed country. Clonaid was founded by a religious movement called the Raelians, the doctrine of which believes that life on Earth was created by extraterrestrials.
If the cloning assertion is true, the birth would be the first ever human clone. Brigitte Boisselier, scientific director of Clonaid, made her statement at a news conference and has arranged for a physicist named Michael Guillen, former science correspondent for ABC News, to independently verify the claim.
Boisselier offered no immediate proof of her claim -- or photographs of the baby. She said the baby is healthy, and that the whole family is "very happy." She also said the baby's grandmother thinks she looks just like her mother.
She says the baby will go home in three days, and an independent expert will take DNA samples from the baby to prove she had been cloned. Those results are expected within a week after the testing.
Boisselier had told a congressional committee last year that she believed she had the knowledge to produce a human clone in the near future.
Clonaid, which calls itself the "first human cloning company," was founded in 1997. Boisselier is a bishop in the Raelian movement.
Claude Vorilhon, who founded the Raelians, told CNN in July 2001 that the long-term goal for human cloning is to live forever. Vorilhon says cloning a baby is only the first step: Eventually the group wants to learn how to clone an adult, then "transfer the brain to the clone."
Boisselier says the immediate purpose for cloning is to help infertile couples. Last November, she told CNN she was "indeed doing human cloned embryos and we have many cell divisions," but she wouldn't confirm any pregnancies.
No data released
To make a clone, scientists first take an egg and remove all of its genetic material. Then the nucleus of a cell -- any cell in the body -- is taken from the individual to be cloned and inserted into the hollowed-out egg.
The cell is then given a jolt of electricity or put in a chemical bath to activate cell division -- essentially tricking the cell into doing what a fertilized egg would normally do. Then the embryo is implanted into a woman's uterus to be carried to term.
It is unknown which exact procedure -- if any -- Clonaid used, because it has not published or released any data about its research.
Boisselier has not revealed the location of her current lab, only to say it is no longer in the United States. She used to have a lab in West Virginia, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration visited the lab and shut it down.
Scientists so far have successfully cloned sheep, cows, goats, mice, pigs and a rare wild ox. But human cloning is controversial, because the experience with animal cloning has shown a lot of potential for things to go wrong.
'One shouldn't do this'
Many animal cloners -- including Ian Wilmut, the Scottish researcher who successfully cloned the first animal, Dolly the sheep, in 1997 -- disapprove of human cloning. Wilmut has said it took 276 failed attempts before Dolly was successfully cloned.
"It is not responsible at this stage to even consider the cloning of humans, " said Rudolf Jaenisch, a biologist at MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, which clones mice.
Janeisch said that even if a human clone appears healthy, it may not be once it gets older. Cloning a human at this point, he said, without knowing more about why things go wrong, is "essentially using humans as guinea pigs, and one shouldn't do this."
According to Dr. Jon Hill, a veterinarian who successfully cloned cows at Texas A&M University, even clones who appear normal at birth often develop problems afterward.
"Their livers, their lungs, their heart, their blood vessels are often abnormal after birth," Hill said.
Few legal prohibitions The Raelians are not the only group claiming to actively try to clone a human.
Italian doctor Severino Antinori made several announcements in recent months, claiming that a woman was carrying a human clone that would be born in January 2003. And former University of Kentucky professor Panos Zavos has also announced plans to clone a human, but he told CNN earlier this year he had not successfully created an embryo yet.
Scientists and bioethicists have questioned whether any of these groups have the ability to clone a human. Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, has said in the past that "we don't know how" to accomplish human cloning.
Legally, there's very little to stop scientists from cloning. In January, the National Academy of Sciences recommended a ban on human cloning, but only four states -- California, Michigan, Louisiana and Rhode Island -- ban any type of cloning research.
The FDA claims it has jurisdiction over human cloning based on the Public Health Service and Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. It says it would regulate the cloning process like a drug.
The book "More Guns, Less Crime" does a pretty good job of just looking at the numbers. When you look at the numbers, the spin the other groups put on a particular incident is lessened.
Why is everything slow (NT)
Wow, that was fast. Mirrors anyone?
I agree, but for a different reason. If the system and programs are more open, the community can pour over the code to make sure there are no problems and if one is found, patch it. I wouldn't want the SW people to deny there is a bug in Heart Rate Monitor 2002 or Automatic Medicine Adjuster XP, when people are dying or meeting Lucy in the Sky from too much "happy juice."
where the guy is ordering a car and the dude with the tablet PC is painting it on the fly? Yea, thats the one. I wonder what would happen if his tablet BSODed on him and every car he made was BOSD blue with 0x0000000A memory addresses over the car ala racing stripes.
That would be my car on Grand Turismo!
I really think the tablet PCs would have to be thin clients to conserve battery life. I also don't think that a M$ OS is the way to go. The bloat in OS would just use up so much memory and processor cycles, that the battery life would suffer. A thin client, with just a web browser(intranet, limited internet) and maybe a few small apps, such as a calculator, or life support monitor, etc etc. This is assuming that a sales person or a medical professional is using the device.
/**You forgot my processor, you insensetive clod!*/, the new processors get HOT. Would you really hold a system like this, if it was reaching 150 degrees F? I wouldn't
Anything goes if someone is watching DVDs and running SETI@Home in the background while downloading the latest Harry Potter. I wouldnt expect the battery to last that long at all. Then again, the same goes for normal protables.
Another factor to consider is heat. If the WinXP OS is running all sorts of junk in the background, the system will heat up considerably. Much like thier desktop brothers, the new pentiums and athlons
But then again, this is nothing new. I think I've seen people with devices like this before. Usually, its all proprietary programs. They seem to work well, since its just a thin client with connections to a server somewhere.
I can hear it now: /. effect in progress!
Danger Will Robinson!!
Then, the little laptop robot rolls away and gets me a beer.
..and make some real friends!! Leave these Sims alone.
Now, excuse me while I go play some Metriod Prime.
Enters dark room, all alone with only some Diet Rite and some leftover turkey Ahh, sweet sweet bliss.
I'm gonna write:
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe, DUUUUUPE
Doope, Doope, Doope, DOOOOOOOOOPE....
OK, I sent it in....
Lets see if this applies anymore:
* Badly worded subjects Check
* Broken or missing URLs Check
* Confusing or hysterical sounding writeup It was OK, I guess
* It might be an old story Double check
* It might just be a busy day and we've already posted enough stories Riiiight, on thanksgiving?
* Someone already submitted your story Double Check
* Your story just might not be interesting! Check, esp since its old news...
We shall see what happens, heheheh
This article is next
Kisses karma bye-bye as he resubmits this article just to see what happens.....
Its rare to see new CDs here in Texas for more than 11.99-13.99(Best Buy, Target). Sure, the older stuff is a little more. The only places that rip people off royally are in the mall (Suncoast, Sam Goody) Don't ever buy stuff there! Honestly, I don't know how they can stay in business with prices like that!
I remember the days when I would pay for X amount of hours on AOL(Please don't stone me, I was a foolish freshman in college) and I would monitor it super closely with that little clock thingy. Then, it became all you can eat access after a while. And now, they want this?
I really wouldnt want to waste my time limit / bandwidth limit on junk(Videos, Audio) some other junk the roadrunner people want me to see. You know what I mean?
I can imagine the newest teeny band video loading up in a little Windows Media Player window while I'm looking at ESPN or something like that.
Then the bill comes, and I think, "Mierda!, where did all my bandwith limit go?" Just tracking it would be a pain for me, and, much like Sprint PCS, I can see the cable co. charging me to see my bandwidth used.
My fellow geeks, at what point will we stand up and give them a Stone Cold(c) "Oh hell no!" ??
Dude, that sucks. As if the price gouging isnt enough
In walks OWT
Did anyone order a pizza?
Funky bass intro
The telemarketers numbers show that people buy the junk they sell. One of the people I work with has bought tons of stuff from them, including Direct TV, Carpet Cleaner, and weight loss stuff.
So long as there are people like my co-worker, these guys are going to keep at it.
As for me, I'm using the 3 tone way.
I remember when I had the time read the news and waste a few hours doing things like this... Ah, college, fun $17,000 a year at a time.
I used to use Netscape 7.I used the AIM, the eMail, everything. But, that bad boy would use up to 50,000k of my memory(so says the olde task manager) so it brought the system to a crawl... Thanks to you guys, I now use Mozilla, which uses a lot too, but not near as much as Netscape. Also, I understand there are no more pop ups on the web....
Duse, I work for dell, so I know first hand what us guys go through. Here are some of my favorite tales: A guy is mad because his region 4 DVD player will not play the Playboy DVDs he bought A guy tells me he will make my life hell and come after me because I would not give him a bios password for a portable. A lady blames me for having to reinstall her OS(She had every P2P program on earth, along with every spyware you can think of, plus a virus or 2) A guy asked me how to remove a picture from the desktop before his parents got home and how to remove that picture from the list of backgrounds. A lady that said she would always get porno pop ups. Only her and her husband use the system. Good times!