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DOUGLAS MELTON, KEVIN EGGAN AND GEORGE DALY

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AGES: 53, 33 and 46
OCCUPATION: Stem-cell researchers at Harvard
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: Trio of researchers who announced that they would rely on nongovernmental funds to begin cloning human embryos and develop stem cells to be used for modeling various diseases.

CON: It's still controversial work, and any clinical application is at the very least a decade away.

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