TITLE

Milestones

PUB. DATE

June 1999

SOURCE

Christian Science Monitor;6/22/99, Vol. 91 Issue 144, p5

SOURCE TYPE

Newspaper

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Details how Chinese scientists have cloned an embryo of a giant panda. How it is a development hailed as a possible breakthrough in efforts to save the endangered species; How the animal could become extinct in a few decades.

ACCESSION #

1951751

Tags: PANDAS;  ENDANGERED species;  CLONING;  GENETIC engineering

 

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