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Therapeutic cloning would involve cloning cells from a human for use in medicine and transplants. It is an active area of research, and is in medical practice over the world. Two common methods of therapeutic cloning that are being researched are somatic-cell nuclear transfer and (more recently) pluripotent stem cell induction .
Cloning was explored further in stories such as Poul Anderson's 1953 UN-Man. [20] In his 1976 novel, The Boys from Brazil , Ira Levin describes the creation of 96 clones of Adolf Hitler , replicating for all of them the rearing of Hitler (including the death of his father at age 13), with the goal of resurrecting Nazism.
Fictional works that deal with cloning as either an important element or the main theme. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
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Garima-I, a buffalo calf cloned using an "Advanced Hand guided Cloning Technique" was born in 2009 at the NDRI. Two years later in 2011, she died of heart failure. [88] [89] Garima-II, another cloned calf was born in 2010. This buffalo was inseminated with frozen-thawed semen of a progeny-tested bull and gave birth to a female calf, Mahima in ...
David Michael Rorvik (born 1943) is an American journalist and novelist who was the author of the 1978 book In his Image: The Cloning of a Man [1] in which he claimed to have been part of a successful endeavor to create a clone of a human being. The book is widely considered to be a hoax. [2] [3] [4] [5]