News.com Daily Podcast: Win an auction, clone your pet
A San Francisco-area biotech firm is starting online auctions at $100,000 each to submit a beloved pet's DNA for cloning.
Though the first animal cloned successfully from an adult was done 12 years ago, the technology is still out of reach for non-scientists. That is, until now. News.com intern Holly Jackson had a chat with the CEO of BioArts, a biotech company auctioning off several opportunities to clone a pet dog. The first auction will start at $100,000, and the procedure isn't short on controversy.
Also in today's podcast: Yahoo tries out YMail.com, Jerry Yang takes a trip to Capitol Hill to quash any antitrust concerns surrounding its search ad partnership with Google, plus we check in with Daniel Terdiman on Road Trip 2008.
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Today's stories:
Auctions could fetch big bucks for cloned dogs
Yahoo hopes to lure users with Ymail.com
Yang talks up Google partnership in Washington
China antipiracy agencies denies probing Microsoft
Road Trip 2008: Computer sprawl at Geek Squad City