Letter H

Human cloning

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Human cloning for the purposes of creating a human being.

Also called human reproductive cloning.

The physician and essayist Lewis Thomas commented: 'The cloning of human beings is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior-control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry, and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.' (Notes of a biology watcher: on cloning a human being.

N Engl J Med.

1974; 291:1296-97

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