The 37th of 50 Genetic Ideas You Really Need to Know, the enlightening primer by Mark Henderson, is titled ‘Cloning People,’ and the previous chapter covers animal cloning. Cloning is one subject we can all superficially imagine and newspapers love to exploit tales such as that of Dolly the sheep. Henderson sums up so well:
Human reproductive cloning may turn out to be impossible, or impossible to attempt without intolerable risk. It cannot replicate people, and it will never appeal to more than a tiny minority – alternative breeding options will remain more reliable and cheaper. Today, it is the domain of charlatans and cowboys. It may not be for ever.
Let me see if I can follow progress in this classical science fiction terrain.
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[...] Another topic I’m keen to follow up is the abiding science fiction trope of human cloning. A quick hunt doesn’t uncover much released this year or last, but Oneworld, the publisher of intelligent introductions (I’ve read a couple on energy) has a 2007 title that I’ll source, Aaron D. Levine’s Cloning: A Beginner’s Guide. This entry was posted in Genetics, Nonfiction. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « Battered but alive: Review of The Wrestler [...]