Word: cloninger
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If human cloning becomes possible--and since the birth of a sheep called Dolly, few doubt that it will be feasible to clone a person by 2025--even the link between sex organs and reproduction will be broken. You will then be able to take a cutting from your body...
Once cloning loses its stigma, the urge to tinker with the genes of offspring may not be far behind. As Cambridge molecular biologist Graeme Mitchison says, "We can all be beautiful--no baldness, no wimps with glasses, no knobby knees." Olivia Judson, author of a forthcoming book called Dr. Tatiana...
Human cloning and designer babies are probably not imminent. Even assuming that the procedures are judged safe and efficient in farm animals, still a long way off, they will be heavily discouraged, if not banned, by many governments for human beings.
It is worth noting, however, that in much of the biological world, cloning is old hat. There are some species, such as those dandelions and whiptail lizards, that reproduce no other way, and there are many, such as aphids and strawberries, that switch effortlessly between sex and cloning. There are...
Why do these myths and folktales exist? Why are they so powerful? The reasons are twofold; we want to explain the unexplainable, and we want to believe the unbelievable. We want the opportunity to contemplate something other than the corporeal humdrum of everyday life. We want the vicarious thrill of...