Could We Clone Ourselves?
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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] Brought to you in partnership with… The Dyad Institute. You. More. With the popularity of TV shows like Orphan Black, the idea of human cloning is hot on the brains of everyone and their sister… and their sister, and their other sister, and their other other sister. And their brother. Thanks to modern advancements in genetics and synthetic biology, we might have the power to manipulate the human genome in ways that could let us engineer ourselves or our offspring to be free of disease, even to have customized traits. But could actual human clones really exist? Well… Hey, Dyad sent me. They want me to co-host this episode with you or something. Um, okay! Gotta do what the sponsor says, I guess! You look really, um, nevermind. So, yeah....
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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] Brought to you in partnership with… The Dyad Institute. You. More. With the popularity of TV shows like Orphan Black, the idea of human cloning is hot on the brains of everyone and their sister… and their sister, and their other sister, and their other other sister. And their brother. Thanks to modern advancements in genetics and synthetic biology, we might have the power to manipulate the human genome in ways that could let us engineer ourselves or our offspring to be free of disease, even to have customized traits. But could actual human clones really exist? Well… Hey, Dyad sent me. They want me to co-host this episode with you or something. Um, okay! Gotta do what the sponsor says, I guess! You look really, um, nevermind. So, yeah....
