The development of cloning technology during 1998. NPR’s Joe Palca reports that at the beginning of 1998 many scientists doubted whether an adult animal besides Dolly could be cloned. But in only a year’s time there have been cloned mice, cows, and preliminary steps toward cloning a human.
The development of cloning technology
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