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Cook says his intentions in writing Shock were twofold. “I wanted to underline the fact that this monetary economy is emerging for female eggs,” he says, “and I wanted people to know something about embryonic stem cell technology and the basics...
But let the cloner beware. Genetically reproducing a pet is not cheap. "The ones we do in the next year are going to cost five figures," says Hawthorne. Only later, when the procedures get streamlined, will costs drop. There are also technical problems. The Texas lab's 1-in-87...
Moreover, when you do get a viable clone, it may not turn out to be much like its parent in anything but its genes. Rainbow and cc have different coloring, for example, since the coats of calicos are determined partly by genes and partly by random molecular changes during development...
Cloning advocates counter that the frailty of clones will be overcome as the technology improves and that the relatively small number of new cloned pets would have little effect on the stray population. What's more, they argue, cloning has scientific applications. Clones could provide a line of identical animals...
To critics, such arguments seem like moral fig leaves. They view cc as an ethical dry run for human cloning, and they're troubled by how the rehearsal is going. "Once cloning is on its own as a commercial enterprise, there really is no oversight," says Lori Gruen, a Wesleyan...