Wednesday, December 11, 2013  Money & Business  USN Current
Issue  The First Clone  Scientists have finally cloned a human
embryo. The breakthrough promises cures for terrible diseases.
Here's the inside story:  By Joannie Fischer Posted 11/25/01
Physically, Judson Somerville didn't feel a thing. When he took
the cigar-cutter-like tool and clipped a chunk of skin cells
from his right calf last April, there was no pain. The 40-year-
old Texas physician has been using a wheelchair for years,
paralyzed from the chest down, the result of a terrible cycling
accident. But emotionally, that was another story. Cutting the
skin from his calf, Somerville says, he felt the thrill of being
a sort of astronaut, a pioneer. By donating his skin cells,
Somerville was volunteering for nothing less than service on the
frontier of human cloning.  Somerville did not make the decision
lightly. As a conservative Republican, a longtime contributor to
President Bush, Somerville knows how controversial cloning is
for many of his poli