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From: The Columbian
Date: 19971021
Author:ROBERT BARR

ROBERT BARR
The Columbian
10-21-1997
LONDON — Headless tadpoles created in an English laboratory may point the way to cloning spare parts for humans, posing new ethical questions at the frontiers of science.
It might take a decade or more to get from baby frogs to humans, but the technique offers two big advantages: the organ would be perfectly matched to the patient, and it would help solve a chronic shortage of donor organs.
Michael Reiss, senior lecturer in biology at Homerton College, Cambridge, and a Church of England priest, said he was initially repelled by news of ...

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