Other cloning attempts have ended in malformed animals and experts say the technique fails in 97 percent of cases.

CNN: Team to attempt human cloning

All the same, it was the pseudoscientific certainty of Marxism-Leninism, that malformed child of the Enlightenment, which was chiefly to blame.

ECONOMIST: Pol Pot's Cambodia

The work reported Wednesday is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born with malformed ones, or people who lose one to accident or disease.

WSJ: Scientists use 3-D printing to help grow an ear

Outside the U.S., adult stem cells have been used to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes in Argentina, heart disease in countries including Germany, Thailand and India, and babies with malformed hearts in Japan.

FORBES: Despite Bush Veto, Stem Cell Research Abounds

This is the play, you may recall, dominated by the blind, immobile Hamm, who barks orders at his malformed, antic sidekick, Clov, even as Hamm's parents, Nagg and Nell, pop up now and again from two nearby dustbins.

ECONOMIST: Make sure you pick the right Beckett