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Article: GROUND THE CLONING DEBATE IN SCIENCE, NOT EMOTION.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 25, 1998
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Byline: Linda Seebach
When I think about cloning, I think about twins. Identical twins, but born at different times; a phenomenon not previously encountered by humanity, to be sure, but just one among many 20th-century innovations in human reproduction.
Clearly I am missing something - an enzyme, perhaps, or whatever it is that causes people to recoil in visceral horror at the very idea.
I just wanted to learn more about how it works, and I have, in Gina Kolata's book Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead.
Kolata is The New York Times science reporter who broke the Dolly story in the American press. Speaking to the Denver Press ...