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ENGLISH 12H (Frankenstein): Cloning

This guide will provide a variety of topics from which students can choose and begin the research process for Frankenstein.

Database Research Links

Recombinant DNA

Cloning: Ethical Issues

Human Cloning

Human Subjects of Biotechnological Research

Genetics and society: Social impacts of genetic advances

Biotechnology and the Manipulation of Genes

Ethical issues of modern genetics

Articles/Viewpoints

Spaced Out: A group that believes life on earth was created by aliens claims to have made the first human clone. Who are the Raelians and where are they hiding 'Eve'?
Newsweek, January 13, 2003
Impossible to ape: Cloning primates is turning out to be a real challenge.
New Scientist, December 15, 2001
In cloning, failure far exceeds success
The New York Times, December 11, 2001.
Human cloning advance raises personalized medicine hopes: embryonic stem cells made with nuclear transfer method
Science News, 15 June 2013
Cloned cells today. Where tomorrow? Dolly's creator Ian Wilmut says human cloning could cure inherited diseases. But there's a long way to go.
New Scientist, 21 Feb. 2004
Nuclear reprogramming of cloned embryos and its implications for therapeutic cloning
Nature Genetics, 2007

NEWSELA Collection

Science: 20 years since the first sheep was cloned —

are we ready for humans?

Science & Math: Issue Overview: Gene editing

Science: Scientists around the world are

working to map animal genomes

Science: Chinese scientists have successfully

cloned two monkeys

Science & Math: Henrietta Lacks’ "immortal" cells

Science: U.S. doctors treat cancer patients with

experimental gene editing tool

Benedict Library Resources

Biomedical Ethics by Dawn Laney (Editor)
ISBN: 9780737728590
Publication Date: 2006-11-17
Cloning by Don Nardo
ISBN: 9781560069270
Publication Date: 2001-10-16
Designer Babies by Clay Farris Naff (Editor)
ISBN: 9780737761634
Publication Date: 2012-12-17
Ethics Across Cultures by Michael C. Brannigan
ISBN: 9780767424189
Publication Date: 2004-10-22
Cloning by Nancy Harris
ISBN: 9780737719659
Publication Date: 2004-08-20
Genomics and Cloning by Sandy Fritz
ISBN: 9781583403655
Publication Date: 2003-08-01

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