This week, Chicago scientist Richard Seed announced that he will proceed with human cloning. Politicians, including President Clinton, are outraged. But doctors and researchers of human infertility are concerned that the debate may stifle their own research and techniques, which fall far short of human cloning.
Richard Seed announced that he will proceed with human cloning
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