Clones

Author : Nathan Crowe
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987686
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Clones written by Nathan Crowe and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 contemporary ethical controversies, Forgotten Clones revisits the influential work of scientists like Briggs, Thomas King, and Marie DiBerardino, before the possibility of human cloning and its ethical implications first registered as a concern in public consciousness, and when many thought the very idea of cloning was experimentally impossible. By focusing instead on new laboratory techniques and practices and their place in Anglo-American science and society in the mid-twentieth century, Nathan Crowe demonstrates how embryos constructed in the lab were only later reconstructed as ethical problems in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of what was then referred to as the Biological Revolution. His book illuminates the importance of the early history of cloning for the biosciences and their institutional, disciplinary, and intellectual contexts, as well as providing new insights into the changing cultural perceptions of the biological sciences after Second World War.

Author : Gloria Skurzynski
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781416955603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clones written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clones are supposed to be identical... aren't they? Corgan, hero of the Virtual War, has been living a blissful, if placid, life on the Isles of Hiva, his reward for winning the War with Sharla and Brig. But what he doesn't know is that Brig died soon after the War, and yet is not truly gone. Sharla had saved some of Brig's DNA and has created clone-twins with it. Corgan's world is disrupted when Sharla brings one of the clone-twins, Seabrig, to him to raise on the island, while she keeps the other, Brigand, with her in the Domed City. However, when circumstances force Sharla to bring Brigand to the island, they find that while the boys may look identical, their temperaments are not. Brigand is haughty, willful, power hungry, and despises Corgan because of his relationship with Sharla. And, as a result of the cloning process, both boys are growing at an astonishing rate. In what may or may not have been an accident with his clone-twin, Seabrig is badly injured and must be airlifted from the island to receive medical treatment in the Domed City. This leaves Corgan alone with an increasingly dangerous and unstable Brigand, who is now his size, and looking to get rid of Corgan once and for all. A gripping sequel to Virtual War that could be ripped straight from the headlines -- in eighty years....

Author : Martha Craven Nussbaum
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393046489
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clones and Clones written by Martha Craven Nussbaum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars and writers from a broad range of disciplines address a troubling and fascinating issue.

Author : Gloria Skurzynski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439116081
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual War written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images. Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority. Everything Corgan is, everything he has ever seen or done, was to prepare him for one moment: a bloodless, computer-controlled virtual war. When Corgan meets his two fellow warriors, he begins to question the Federation. Now Corgan must decide where his loyalties lie, what he's willing to fight for, and exactly what he wants in return. His decisions will affect not only these three virtual warriors, but all the people left on earth.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309076374
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a newborn genetically identical to another human being. It is currently the subject of much debate around the world, involving a variety of ethical, religious, societal, scientific, and medical issues. Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning considers the scientific and medical sides of this issue, plus ethical issues that pertain to human-subjects research. Based on experience with reproductive cloning in animals, the report concludes that human reproductive cloning would be dangerous for the woman, fetus, and newborn, and is likely to fail. The study panel did not address the issue of whether human reproductive cloning, even if it were found to be medically safe, would beâ€"or would not beâ€"acceptable to individuals or society.

Author : Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Star Wars, Episode II, Attack of the Clones written by Mark Cotta Vaz and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual tour of the sequel to Star Wars episode 1 : the phantom menace.

Author : John Whitman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613114257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clones written by John Whitman and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tash is at an abandoned Jedi fortress on the remote planet Dantooine. She senses something dark in the ruins and begins a terrifying journey into an evil world, where she is forced to fight to the death her own brother and uncle.

Author : Kerry Lynn Macintosh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521853286
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illegal Beings written by Kerry Lynn Macintosh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think human reproductive cloning should be a crime-some states have even outlawed it and Congress is working to enact a national ban. However, if reproductive cloning soon becomes a reality, it will be impossible to prevent infertile couples and others from choosing the technology, even if they have to break the law. While most books on cloning cover the advantages and disadvantages of cloning technology, Illegal Beings describes the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning. Kerry Lynn Macintosh, an attorney with expertise in the area of law and technology, argues that the most common objections to cloning are false or exaggerated, inspiring laws that stigmatize human clones as subhuman and unworthy of existence. She applies the same reasoning that was used to invalidate racial segregation to show how anti-cloning laws, by reinforcing negative stereotypes, deprive human clones of their equal protection rights under the law. Her book creates a new topic within constitutional law: existential segregation, or the practice of discriminating by preventing the existence of a disfavored group or class. This comprehensive and novel work looks at how anti-cloning laws will hurt human clones in a fresh perspective on this controversial subject. Kerry Lynn Macintosh is a member of the Law and Technology faculty at Santa Clara University School of Law. She is the author of papers, articles, and book chapters on the law and technology and has contributed to the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, and Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Author : Curtis Saxton
Publisher : Dk Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780789485748
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Wars, Attack of the Clones written by Curtis Saxton and published by Dk Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans can see the inner workings of the spacecraft and vehicles from the latest Star Wars movie and learn important information found nowhere else about the use, structure, and technology of each. 150,000 first printing.

Author : Edward Bonilla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940233710
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 5 Clones written by Edward Bonilla and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States permanently closes all of its borders to immigration, and expels all "nonnatives"from the country in a furor of Nationalism and Isolationism, California secedes from the Union to form its own independent nation. In the midst of this chaos, Dan and his 5 Clones - his physical replicas, created in a federal lab to be low intelligence farm laborers - attempt to secretly enter the new California Independent Republic, becoming enmeshed in a struggle to find and secure a new technology that could save, or destroy the world. But are Dan's 5 clones really just workers? Slaves? Pets? Family? Or will they turn out to be something entirely different.. Here is a big question: What is a human being? Blood. Flesh and bone. A soul. Who is to say that a 'soul' is thesole possession of a human being? I loved this book and I am certain you will too. Gary Petras, author of Memories End, The Sisters Hood and the Thorndancer, Small Heroes and Farrow And Blackstorm Trilogies www.5Clones.com