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Tackling cloning issues
Michael West, president of Advanced Cell Technology, a Massachusetts research company developing disease therapies, and founder of Geron, a California biopharmaceutical company focusing on aging, has been in the hot seat over issues of cloning this year. His new book, "The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Daring Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging" (Doubleday, $24.95), takes readers through the controversy and promise of therapeutic (vs. reproductive) cloning and how it could alter the way humans live.
Combined dispatches