Word: cloninger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BREAKTHROUGH FOR CLONING
A reliable cloning technique for an animal that has such well understood genetics and reproduces so rapidly (up to five generations in a year) means that scientists will be able to study in detail the process by which genes turn on and turn off, and thus how cells become specialized...
And yes, Wakayama's work does bring complete human cloning a dramatic step closer to reality. Creating a carbon copy of a living adult will always be impossible, however. The difference in age between parent and child alone would prevent it, and because genetics only partly determines who we are...
Today the new creation involved in cloning is no doubt visionary (Frankenstein goes partners with Henry Ford in the mass production of life) and also plunges forth into mystery, though of a different sort from that approached by astronauts. Think of the 50 Hawaiian mice and then extrapolate, taking your...
The space agenda remains splendid though underfunded. If the leading edge of popular curiosity trends for the moment away from space and toward cloning, we may sense that in the transition the future has grown a little retrograde, at least from a moral and theological point of view. As the...