Pandora's Baby

In vitro fertilization was once considered by some to be a threat to our very humanity. Cloning inspires similar fears

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The Frankenstein Myth Becomes a Reality: We Have the Awful Knowledge to Make Exact Copies of Human Beings. Willard Gaylin in New York Times Magazine, pages 12¿13, 41¿46; March 5, 1972.

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Robin Marantz Henig, a long-time science journalist, is author of nine books and has written for the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and many others. She writes frequently about grandparenthood for the Atlantic's Web site.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 288 Issue 6This article was published with the title “Pandora's Baby” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 288 No. 6 ()
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