The mammal copiers – advances in cloning

Further Reading

Australasian Science

October 2006, pages 26-28
Cloning goes to the movies (by Craig Cormick)
Analyses the effects that Hollywood is having on public perceptions of cloning.

Cosmos

6 December 2006
Back from the dead (by Jacqui Hayes)
Discusses the possibility of cloning extinct animals.

Nature

22 February 2007, pages 800-801
Dolly: A decade on (by Meredith Wadman)
Covers the changes that have occurred in the ten years since Dolly was cloned.

New Scientist

8 November 2008, page 12
Rare species to be frozen, then cloned (by Rachel Nowak)
Describes the cloning of frozen mice and its implications for species conservation.

26 April 2008, pages 40-43
Struggling to find an appetite for cloned meat (by Sharon Oosthoek)
Discusses the production of food from cloned animals.

18 April 2007, pages 24-25
Perfect clones, to the last computer-generated wrinkle (by Celeste Biever)
Provides a glimpse into the future, where the real and the virtual lookalike are undistinguishable.

1 July 2006, pages 8-10
Ten years on, has the cloning dream died? (by Peter Aldhous and Andy Coghlan)
Reviews the 10 years since Dolly was first cloned.

1 July 2006, page 11
Therapeutic cloning set by hype and fraud (by Peter Aldhous and Andy Coghlan)
Discusses some of the issues about using cloned embryonic stem cells for therapeutic cloning.

1 April 2006, page 10
Champion horse is daddy of the clones (by Henry Nicholls)
Covers a highly efficient method to clone a stallion.

22 November 2003, page 23
A crime against humanity (by Alan Trounson)
A leading stem cell scientist presents his views on why reproductive cloning should be condemned.

Scientific American

August 2008, pages 80-81
Dolly's creator moves away from cloning and embryonic stem cells (by Sally Lehrman)
Provides an update to cloning technology.

February 2002, pages 10-11
What clones? (by Gary Stix)
Covers the scientific doubt that greeted the announcement of the first human embryo clones.

January 2002, pages 42-49
The first human cloned (by Jose B. Cibelli, Robert P. Lanza and Michael D. West, with Carol Ezzell)
An article written by the scientists who have cloned human embryos.

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