BRITAIN CUTS FUNDING FOR CLONING.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The British government is cutting off funding to the research project that produced the first cloned mammal mammal, an animal of the highest class of vertebrates, the Mammalia. The female has mammary glands, which secrete milk for the nourishment of the young after birth. because it has been a success. The decision, announced Saturday by the Ministry of Agriculture, disappointed Grahame Bulfield, director of the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh. He said the ministry had financed the research for eight years and recently provided 65 percent of its funding. ``I will move heaven and Earth to keep resources in that cloning program,'' he told The Daily Telegraph. The Ministry said the institute's $411,000 grant will be halved halve tr.v. halved, halv·ing, halves 1. To divide (something) into two equal portions or parts. 2. To lessen or reduce by half: halved the recipe to serve two. 3. in April and then entirely cut 12 months later. ``We fund hundreds of projects at research institutions, and this one has been a success, and the contract is being concluded. We funded it when it was a theoretical idea, and the commitment was never long-term,'' a ministry spokesman said, speaking on customary anonymity. The rest of the institute's financing came from PPL PPL - Polymorphic Programming Language. An interactive, extensible language, based on APL, from Harvard University. ["Some Features of PPL - A Polymorphic Programming Language", T.A. Standish, SIGPLAN Notices 4(8) (Aug 1969)]. Therapeutics therapeutics Treatment and care to combat disease or alleviate pain or injury. Its tools include drugs, surgery, radiation therapy, mechanical devices, diet, and psychiatry. , a Scottish biotechnology company headquartered outside Edinburgh. PPL's share prices have soared since last weekend's announcement that a lamb had been cloned with tissue from an adult ewe. |
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