Reply: Attitudes towards human reproductive cloning, ART and gene selection
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Attitudes towards human reproductive cloning, ART and gene selection.
Sir, I was delighted to see the article of Prainsack et al. (2007) on the comparative attitudes of monozygotic (MZ) twins and dizygotic (DZ) twins on the subject of human reproductive cloning (HRC). It is true that cloning is not portrayed well in the media, and science fiction has a long history presenting us with strange new worlds where human clones are soulless carbon-copies of ‘real’ human...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Reproduction
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0268-1161,1460-2350
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dep270