Forgotten clones : the birth of cloning and the biological revolution /

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Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American embryologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully developed the technique of nuclear transplantation using frogs in 1952. Although the history of cloning is often associated with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crowe, Nathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Temas:
Cloning > History.
Biology > Social aspects.
Genetic engineering.
Clonage > Histoire.
Biologie > Aspect social.
SCIENCE / General
Biology > Social aspects
Cloning
Genetic engineering
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Rethinking the origins of nuclear transplantation
  • 1. Beyond Spemann's "fantastical" experiment
  • 2. Making the technique work for cancer
  • Part II: The circulation of nuclear transplantation in the 1950s and 1960s
  • 3. A focus on potency
  • 4. New uses for nuclear transplantation in practice and imagination
  • Part III: The construction of nuclear transplantation as a bioethical problem
  • 5. Nuclear transplantation and human cloning in the 1960s
  • 6. Bioethics and the Biological Revolution.

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