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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
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Subject: Re: Semi-artificial life.
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Date: 10 Apr 91 22:05:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.074432.7267@newcastle.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Apr10.074432.7267@newcastle.ac.uk> w.p.coyne@uk.ac.newcastle writes:
> 
>                 Semi-Artificial Life
> In the 1960's John Gurdon did a nuclear transfer experiment.  He took the
> nucleii of cells lining the gut of tadpoles of the toad Xenopus and inserted
> them into toad eggs from which the nucleii had been effectively removed by
> irradiation.

> It would seen from this that cloning is technologically possible.

Or that either the experiment concept was flawed or the technique was sufficently
crude that most of the eggs were fatally damaged and unable to develop.

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