IT HAS become an unwritten rule of the biotech business that all newly cloned
animals must have PR-friendly names. On this score, at least, the latest cloned
piglets didn’t disappoint. No sooner had little Noel, Angel, Star, Joy and
Mary—born on Christmas day—squealed their way onto the front pages
than a rival team of cloners was unveiling an equally cutely named litter of
four.
Suddenly, the race to turn pigs into organ donors seemed to be hotting up.
“We are looking at four to five years for clinical trials to begin in humans,”
announced Alan Colman of PPL…
