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To: DMaA who wrote (11734)	1/17/1998 1:29:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

It's not from the Bible, it's from that song "They Call The Wind Pariah". David, Thank you. That show what I know<G> Glenn

To: DMaA who wrote (11734)	1/18/1998 1:54:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

"They Call The Wind Pariah"..... I thought Pariah were those fish that eat flesh.

To: DMaA who wrote (11734)	1/20/1998 11:26:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

No human cloning without FDA approval WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Chicago physicist's plan to clone a human is propelling a race by Congress and more than a dozen states to ban cloning, but Richard Seed already faces a big obstacle: The Food and Drug Administration. The FDA says it will shut down anyone who tries cloning without its permission, an intervention that scientists welcomed Monday as a way to give lawmakers more time to carefully word anti-cloning bills so they don't inadvertently ban lifesaving medical research. ''One man who's on the fringe has drawn a lot of attention in Washington and state capitals,'' said Dr. Benjamin Younger of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. ''If they are going to do this, come up with legislation that bans cloning but protects research.'' FDA investigators are tracking down Seed to make clear to him that federal regulations require that he file for FDA approval to attempt cloning -- permission highly unlikely. ''We're not only able to move, we're prepared to move,'' said Dr. Michael Friedman, the FDA's acting commissioner, noting the agency can go to court to stop unauthorized cloning attempts. ''The scientific issues are far from clear and ... there are some significant ethical concerns that have to be dealt with,'' added Friedman, noting that the first cloning success -- the Scottish sheep Dolly -- took 277 tries. For safety reasons, he said, ''we're more interested in the 277 failures than in the success.'' Seed did not return a call for comment, but says he plans to clone a person within 18 months. A physicist, Seed has no medical degree, no laboratory backing and little money, so many scientists aren't taking him seriously. He and a brother, Randolph, a Chicago surgeon, did pioneer a human embryo transfer technique during the 1980s, but their for-profit company fizzled. President Clinton urged Congress to ban human cloning, congressional leaders have pledged quick action after they return next week, and bills are pouring into state legislatures. Scientists say broadly worded bills already pending in Congress would ban cloning-related research that could one day grow replacement organs, mend spinal-cord injuries and better treat infertility. The key, they say, is banning only baby-making by cloning. But scientists' biggest alarm came from Florida, where a bill proposed making any cloning of human DNA a felony -- even though cloning human genetic material is standard practice in genetics research, the making of critical medicines and even police DNA fingerprinting. The bill was withdrawn after its authors ''realized this would have stopped biomedical research in Florida in its tracks,'' said Carl Feldbaum of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, which represents biotechnologists involved in cloning research. ''It's been a public and media assumption that there is nothing on the books that would even slow or stop Dr. Seed,'' Feldbaum said. FDA intervention ''creates at least some breathing space.'' After Dolly's creation last year, Clinton proposed a narrow ban: a five-year moratorium on creating humans through ''somatic cell nuclear transfer technology,'' the Dolly method. That involves creating a pregnancy solely by replacing an egg cell's nucleus with the nucleus of another cell. No lawmaker is yet sponsoring Clinton's bill, and Congress didn't act last year because few members then thought human cloning attempts were close. California, however, banned human cloning effective Jan. 1, using wording similar to Clinton's. Some doctors say the somatic cell definition is worded so vaguely that it could inhibit research to make older women's eggs more fertile by simply housing their genetic contents inside a younger woman's egg. Rep. Vernon Ehlers, R-Mich., a nuclear physicist, wrote the bill that has made the most progress in Congress. It would ban federal funding of any ''research that involves the use of a human somatic cell'' to clone. It also bans embryo research, another issue. o~~~ O