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Does cloning create identical copies?

EMBRYOS ARE MADE OF STEM CELLS that divide to give rise to different types of cells, everything from skin to brain cells. Scientists once thought that reproductive cloning – creating a genetically identical copy of an individual organism – would be impossible without using stem cells and that the path leading to mature ‘differentiated’ cells was irreversible. But clawed frogs proved them wrong…

What makes cloning possible?

In 1958, biologist

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