Cloning: The Road to Dolly and Prospects

Author: Gina Kolata and Yuhui Wang
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: On July 5, 1996, the world's first cloned sheep, Dolly, was born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. This event swept across the globe like a thunderstorm, shaking the scientific community, religious circles, ethical scholars, political circles, and more. Yet, who knew how many people had strived for this goal before Wilmut? In this book, Gina Kolata, a renowned author for The New York Times, personally interviewed nearly all the key figures in the field of cloning research. Using firsthand accounts, she slowly reveals a history of biology's development, filled with success and failure, trust and misunderstanding, truth and lies. At the same time, she provides an in-depth analysis of the characteristics of contemporary American society, its thoughts, cultural trends, and the relationship between science and society, explaining the scientific and technological foundations, social and cultural background, and the impact of the cloned sheep on the future of humanity.