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BRITNEY SPEARS and George Bush beware! Your many fans might be eager to clone
you. So says a Californian company that is offering celebrities the chance to
establish copyright over their DNA to prevent unwanted duplication.

“A lot of people are going to want to clone people they admire,” says Andre
Crump, president of the DNA Copyright Institute (DCI) of San Francisco. In
theory at least, all someone needs to clone their hero or heroine is a few
living cells from them left behind on a glass or exchanged in a handshake, for
example.

For high-profile individuals worried they might…

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