The science, politics and ethics of cloning technology
July 2024
Uncanny Me review – exploration of cloning tech fraught with moral and ethical questions
Creating a 3D avatar to increase a model’s income brings up all sorts of issues, but this documentary seems uninterested in addressing them
April 2024
Two endangered black-footed ferrets cloned from frozen tissue samples
Noreen and Antonia, born last May, are among first cloned offspring of a native endangered species in the North America
September 2023
Dolly the sheep scientist Sir Ian Wilmut dies at 79
‘Titan of the scientific world’ led team that cloned first mammal from an adult cell at Edinburgh in 1996
August 2022
The Guardian view on de-extinction: Jurassic Park may be becoming reality
Editorial: We should be keeping endangered species alive rather than bringing animals back from extinction
July 2022
Cloned mice created from freeze dried skin cells in world first
Breakthrough could help conservationists revive dwindling populations of endangered species
June 2022
Life will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?
Just a few years from now, herds of woolly ‘mammoths’ could be roaming the Siberian tundra. Are dodos and dinosaurs next for de-extinction?
April 2022
Pass notes
Pet cloning: how the rich are spending up to £38,000 for Rover, version 2.0
Growing numbers of wealthy people are turning to science to create copies of their beloved dog or cat. But they might not be identical in every way
February 2022
Wanted: virile but gentle mate for the world’s first cloned black-footed ferret
German researchers to breed pigs for human heart transplants
December 2021
Controversial mitochondrial donation legislation passed after conscience vote
Maeve’s law will legalise partial DNA donations, allowing women to give birth without passing on a genetic disease
March 2020
I would clone my dog – and I’m not ashamed to admit it
Arwa Mahdawi
A couple called the Tschirharts spent $50,000 to recreate their beloved pooch. If I had the cash, I would definitely do the same, writes Arwa Mahdawi
September 2019
Copy cats: pet-cloning in China – in pictures
As Chinese spending on pets increases by up to 27% year on year, a Beijing firm has created its first cloned kitten
November 2018
Scientist in China defends human embryo gene editing
He Jiankui uses Hong Kong summit to reply to critics of his Crispr-Cas9 trials altering baby DNA for HIV resistance
April 2018
Guardian Selects
Is it time to worry about human cloning again?
People are copying pets to preserve a physical – and spiritual – connection to dead children. MIT Technology Review reports.
March 2018
Barbra Streisand’s dog cloning is a modern tragedy. Pets are meant to die
Stuart Heritage
To own an animal is to learn about the inevitability of dying – not that loved ones can be replicated in a lab if we cough up enough cash, writes Guardian columnist Stuart Heritage
February 2018
Barbra Streisand reveals she cloned her dog twice
Singer and actor tells Variety she made clones of 14-year-old Samantha before it died last year
January 2018
The Observer view on cloning
Pictures of the first two cloned primates have caused deep unease. But the idea of making exact copies of deceased humans remains a delusion
How afraid of human cloning should we be?
Philip Ball
The creation of two monkeys brings the science of human cloning closer to reality. But that doesn’t mean it will happen, writes science writer Philip Ball
Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua: first primates born using Dolly the sheep cloning method
Cloning of macaque monkeys a breakthrough, but researchers insist work will not be extended to humans
May 2017
Shortcuts
Why fans think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a clone named Melissa
A rumour that the Canadian singer has been replaced by a lookalike resurfaced on Twitter last week, but she is not the first star to be subject to such speculation
