Forgotten clones : the birth of cloning and the biological revolution /

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...

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Main Author: Crowe, Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
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