Hello, Hello, Dolly, Dolly

摘要

Frankenstein's monster" cried the popular press in response to the announcement from Scotland that an adult ewe had been cloned. The reference was probably inevitable: the mammary-gland cell that supplied the DNA for making a lamb was an "adult body part," fused with an egg cell by a jolt of electric current. But the media clearly didn't have in mind the pitiful, self-loathing student of Goethe in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel. What they meant instead was Boris Karloff with bolts through his neck. Does it matter?