Maybe the weird-looking Star Wars cloners have some way of artificially producing egg cells.

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Just how far the cloners' experiments have progressed is a matter of much speculation.

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Some cloners simply copy the images of a well-known app or use the app's name to cash in on the original app's popularity.

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There is little data on how many cloners exist and how much money they are reaping, but the practice can take many forms.

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By early 1997 Power Computing and less ambitious Mac cloners, such as Motorola and Umax Data Systems, were making more than a quarter of all the Mac-based computers sold in America.

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What the Oregon scientists have done is to deliver the baby that the would-be human cloners have been waiting for 15 years -- what looks like a reliable technique for creating cloned embryos.

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Apple also said that in future it will not license any new technologies to the other Mac cloners, a move that will soon prevent them from competing for the attentions of Apple devotees.

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By studying the expression patterns of individual genes, cloners have found that certain genes which should be turned on in early development, such as those that control the implantation of the embryo into the uterus, are activated much later in cloned embryos.

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