UnPacked Shorts – Human clones are closer than you think


May 3, 2018

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22 years ago, scientists successfully cloned Dolly the sheep, and talk turned to the possibility of cloning humans. The latest scientific breakthrough has taken us a good few steps closer to that. In this UnPacked Short, Peter Franklin and Charlotte Pickles discuss the (diminishing) practical barriers to cloning humans, and whether we should even try.

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