Throughout most of this decade, the worst kept secret in American government was that the US Food and Drug Administration was preparing to approve meat from cloned livestock for human consumption. Journalists have been writing stories about this for years. And when the government finally took that fateful step in midJanuary, it triggered a flood of news coverage. Journalists couldn’t decide whe...

Four murine tissue culture cell strains, which originated by cloning from one common cell of subcutaneous connective tissue origin, were examined for the presence of virus by electron microscopy and complement fixation techniques. The relative distribution of C particles and intracisternal A particles was determined. Thereafter, the characteristics of and relationship between Aand C-type partic...

industry, posing an increasing threat to the unique and fearless wildlife studied by Darwin. While the island officially only had 17,000 inhabitants in 2000, many more arrived unrecorded, and some saw the national park as a nuisance and resorted to arson to clear land for their own use. The Galápagos Islands became Unesco's very first World Heritage Site in 1978, attracting yet more visitors. I...

The US Food and Drug Agency could be ruling as soon as next month on draft guidelines for the sale of barnyard clones of cattle and their products: milk, meat and offspring. The regulators are likely to bow to pressure from farmers and the agro-cloning lobby to drop the voluntary moratorium on the sale of genetic material from clones. The new guidelines are widely expected to be liberal, openin...