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After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Cloning

Name: After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Cloning
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
SKU: 9780393330267
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Contributors:

Ian Wilmut, Roger Highfield

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Science

Book Subcategory:

Biotechnology, Life Sciences

Book Topic:

Genetics & Genomics

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Release Date:

2007-08-01

ISBN 13:

9780393330267

Weight:

0.66 lbs

Size:

8.20 x 5.54 x 0.90 inches

Pages:

338

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A timely investigation into the ethics, history, and potential of human cloning from Professor Ian Wilmut, who shocked scientists, ethicists, and the public in 1997 when his team unveiled Dolly that very special sheep who was cloned from a mammary cell. With award-winning science journalist Roger Highfield, Wilmut explains how Dolly launched a medical revolution in which cloning is now used to make stem cells that promise effective treatments for many major illnesses. Dolly's birth also unleashed an avalanche of speculation about the eventuality of cloning babies, which Wilmut strongly opposes. However, he does believe that scientists should one day be allowed to combine the cloning of human embryos with genetic modification to free families from serious hereditary disease. In effect, he is proposing the creation of genetically altered humans."

About the Author
Highfield, Roger: - Roger Highfield is the science editor of The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Britain and is the author of several books.
Wilmut, Ian: - Ian Wilmut, formerly of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, is a professor at the University of Edinburgh.

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