5: Attack of the Clones

Can you be your own mum? Does asexuality exist? We answer these questions and more in this episode! This week Corry touches on the history of cloning, and explains why Jurassic Park is indisputably the best film.

References and Further Reading 

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29395327/

2. www.history.com/.amp/news/wooly-mammoth-resurrection-cloning-genesis

3. Shubin, Neil (24 February 2008) Birds Do It. Bees Do It. Dragons Don’t Need To New York Times

4. "Cloning Fact Sheet". Human Genome Project Information.

5. Swedin, Eric. "Cloning". CredoReference. Science in the Contemporary World

6. Rantala, Milgram, M., Arthur (1999). Cloning: For and Against. Chicago, Illinois: Carus Publishing Company.

7. Wakayama S, Kohda T, Obokata H, Tokoro M, Li C, Terashita Y, Mizutani E, Nguyen VT, Kishigami S, Ishino F, Wakayama T (7 March 2013). "Successful serial recloning in the mouse over multiple generations". Cell Stem Cell

8. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_have_been_cloned

9. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4026-worlds-first-cloned-horse-is-born/

10. Westhusin, Mark; Lyons, Leslie; Murphy, Keith; Buck, Sandra; Lisa Howe; Rugila, James; Liu, Ling; Pryor, Jane; Kraemer, Duane (February 2002). "Cell biology: A cat cloned by nuclear transplantation"

11. Pet kitten cloned for Christmas". BBC. 23 December 2004.

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