Spring Cloning

摘要

So you couldn't squeeze into the Jackie O auction, and were outbid every time the gavel slammed down at Pamela Harri-man's? Take heart: the next big auction of the possessions of a glamorous female is underway. Earlier this month, animalkeepers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland sheared Dolly the sheep. Dolly, of course, is the first mammal cloned from a single adult cell (Newsweek, March 10). Her creamy-white wool, says the United Kingdom Cystic Fibrosis Trust, which Roslin selected to handle the sale and reap the proceeds, has already drawn bids from around the world, including from one American whom the trust described to Newsweek as "in the public eye." Not in the market for a sweater? If experiments underway in labs from Utah to Australia pan out, soon there may be lovely collectibles in calfskin, pigskin and bunny fur—all from cloned animals.