Thursday, August 04, 2005

Quotables

Scientists have successfully cloned a dog. And while I have no interest in this story on the surface, I couldn't pass up these great quotes from this article:

Within weeks of Dolly's birth, a US millionaire gave $5m to a Texas university to duplicate a mongrel dog called Missy. The project became known as Missyplicity....

A US biotech company launched itself under the name Genetic Savings and Clone and cloned a procession of pet cats on demand....

The researchers implanted more than 1,000 embryos into 123 bitches to achieve just three pregnancies.