To clone... Or not to clone? That is a good question! Cloning has its advantages, but also its disadvantages. We might not realize what we are doing. It is like a sword with two blades. On one hand, it can save many lives. On the other hand, it can do a lot of harm. A question mark hangs over the future of cloning. Who are we to decide about someone’s life, his future, his happiness?

Parthenogenetic embryonic stem (ES) cells with two oocyte-derived genomes (uniparental) have been proposed as a source of autologous tissue for transplantation. The therapeutic applicability of any uniparental cell type is uncertain due to the consequences of genomic imprinting that in mammalian uniparental tissues causes unbalanced expression of imprinted genes. We transplanted uniparental fet...

Cloning occurs in software when there is redundancy in it in form of any similarity. So, the clones need to be removed or it can be avoided from the software in order to mitigate the negative impacts of clones. In this paper we have studied the various factors that affect the decision of avoidance or removal of clones for handling them.

Organisms that have ecologically similar sexual and asexual forms present an evolutionary puzzle, as theory predicts that eventually one form should eliminate the other. However, both forms may persist if there is niche partitioning between them. Geographical parthenogenesis is a hypothesis that predicts that in terms of niche use the asexual form in such pairs should be more ecologically succe...