The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem
In September, a man from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison after he trafficked a clone of one of the world’s largest sheep species. Court documents allege that …
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Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First
Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to their new home in Europe. These kittens were no different …
Meet Retro: First-ever cloned rhesus monkey sparks debate – National
For the very first time, a successfully cloned rhesus monkey has survived to adulthood, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications. The primate’s name is Retro and he …
The Viruses That Could Cure Cancer (or Wipe Out Humanity)
Gideon Lichfield: OK, but let me play the synthetic biology devil’s advocate for a second. Lauren Goode: OK, OK. Gideon Lichfield: When you have kids, you are throwing the genetic …