I just saw this on Google News:
Dolly,
World's First Cloned Mammal, Dies. Dolly was 6 years old. I wonder if
that's normal for a sheep? I remember there was some debate about whether
Dolly would live as long as a regular sheep because the DNA that forms her
cells was already old.
Oh, New Scientist
says she died young:
Some cloned mammals, including Dolly, have shorter telomeres than other animals of the same age. These are pieces of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes and research has shown that they act as molecular clocks, governing the process of ageing in cells.
New Scientist says sheep usually live to be 11 or 12 years old. Since
Dolly's DNA was taken from a sheep that was 6 years old, that means her
"total lifespan" was equal to that of a normal sheep. Disturbing
implications for cloning research...
My screen saver at work locks my X session about once a week ever since I
bought a Radeon 7000 after my TNT2 died. It's very frustrating. Ctrl + Alt
+ Backspace can't exit; Ctrl + Alt + Delete does nothing. I have to hard
reset my computer.
I could probably ssh in and fix it, but I use DHCP so I don't know my IP
address (nor do I want to know it).
I've switched to the blank screen saver. Hopefully that will solve the
problem.