X-Message-Number: 15486
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:33:36 +0000
From: "Joseph Kehoe" <>
Subject: life in space...

Life may have started in space not on planets

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62932-2001Jan29.html


Scientists have for the first time shown that when simple chemicals are exposed 
to the harsh

conditions of deep space, the molecules spontaneously arrange themselves into 
the hollow
structures that look like the cell membranes found in all living things.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_1142000/1142840.stm

Scientists have managed to create "primitive cells" in an experiment which may 
indicate that
life began in space and was delivered to Earth.


clones by 2003

http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_1144000/1144694.stm


A private consortium of scientists plans to clone a human being within the next 
two years.

The group says it will use the technique only for helping infertile couples with
no other opportunity to become parents.

Joseph.
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