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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 03:53:11 +0200
From: Rolf Marteijn <rolf@lx.student.wau.nl>
Subject: Re: Why so afraid of cloning? 
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>> Growing cells of skin to replace burned skin patches..
> That isn't cloning - that's just removing cells and having them grow in
> vitro. It isn't the creation of new (or rebuilt) organs, much less the
> creation of new people.

Cloning has many different meanings. If you take a cell-culture catalog,
you'll find 'cloning cylinders' etc. Cloning is also taking 1 cell and
growing that one. The cell is being cloned, all offspring is genetically
(as good as possible) the same and the cellline is also called 'cloned'.

FYI, cloning is also inserting some DNA into a plasmid. Without the
step of transformation this can't even replicate itself..

Just my $0.2

Rolv
