EPISODE · Mar 1, 2026 · 22 MIN
Jurassic Park and the Ethics of Cloning
from Letters from a Glass House
The Jurassic Park books and movies provide a frightening view of what happens when cloning goes wrong. Cloning of mammals from adult body cells has been possible for 30 years, and amphibians were first cloned over 65 years ago. Can cloning really cause disasters like Jurassic Park? Is it legal? Ethical? Moral? Let's talk about this branch of scientific enquiry and it's implications.
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The Jurassic Park books and movies provide a frightening view of what happens when cloning goes wrong. Cloning of mammals from adult body cells has been possible for 30 years, and amphibians were first cloned over 65 years ago. Can cloning really cause disasters like Jurassic Park? Is it legal? Ethical? Moral? Let's talk about this branch of scientific enquiry and it's implications.
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