According to talkin biotech circles, Pfizer was courting Susan Desmond-Hellmann, the head of development at Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ), but was rebuffed.
More than 20 species have been successfully cloned, and there is now talkin some conservation circles of a veritable Jurassic Park-effect becoming essential, as the rate of species extinctions exceeds anything biologists even a generation ago could have imagined.