The Anxiety Encyclopedia

68. C is for Cloning

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Lorien tells Katharine non-duplicative stories about cloning (something that Katharine and Lorien are not, despite a classmate, ten years ago calling them interchangeable [never letting it go]).

Sources:

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/cloning/#

  • https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/internal-content/human-cloning-policies#
  • https://news.gallup.com/poll/6028/cloning.aspx 
  • https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/02/22/20-years-after-dolly-the-sheeps-debut-americans-remain-skeptical-of-cloning/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20211111151011/http://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/20-years-after-dolly-the-sheep-led-the-way-where-is-cloning-now/
  • https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Cloning-Fact-Sheet
  • https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/clonezone
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning#:~:text=As of 2024, there are,Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act).
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/06/1235944741/resurrecting-woolly-mammoth-extinction
  • https://colossal.com/mammoth/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43212343
  • https://www.sify.com/science-tech/did-you-know-you-could-clone-your-pet-for-30000/
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/style/barbra-streisand-cloned-her-dog.html
  • https://people.com/pets/influencers-are-cloning-pets-for-social-media/
  • https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/world/cloned-rhesus-monkey-china-scn/index.html
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/ethics-of-human-cloning-scientific-progress-2020-7#:~:text=Narrator: We've been able,marvel we think it is.
  • https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/21/human-reproductive-cloning-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raël