Practical Applications (was Cloning...)

Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@calweb.com)
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:54:52 -0800 (PST)


> The next step would be to engineer an animal for use by one specific
> individual, then a pig heart would work as well in you as one from your
> identical twin brother, if you had one.
> It's a little more speculative but the womb such a pig that recognized human
> tissue as its own might be a good home for a human embryo for 9 months
> John K Clark johnkc@well.com

Now there are some real, practical, interesting applications. I withdraw
my earlier comment about this cloning research being "unintersting". Give
that man a cigar (and a research grant).

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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
<http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>