All 35 Uses of
clone
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- I've tried to imagine how she'd feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization.
Chpt Pro.cloning = using technology to make genetically identical copies of an organism
- And soon they'd even be able to use the first-ever clones of human cells, something they'd been working toward for years.
Chpt 2.13 *clones = genetically identical copies made with technology
- Today, when we hear the word clone, we imagine scientists creating entire living animals—like Dolly the famous cloned sheep—using DNA from one parent.
Chpt 2.13clone = to make a genetically identical copy of an organism with technology
- Today, when we hear the word clone, we imagine scientists creating entire living animals—like Dolly the famous cloned sheep—using DNA from one parent.
Chpt 2.13 *cloned = copied using technology
- But before the cloning of whole animals, there was the cloning of individual cells—Henrietta's cells.
Chpt 2.13cloning = using technology to make genetically identical copies of an organism
- But before the cloning of whole animals, there was the cloning of individual cells—Henrietta's cells.
Chpt 2.13
- To understand why cellular cloning was important, you need to know two things: First, HeLa didn't grow from one of Henrietta's cells.
Chpt 2.13
- Scientists wanted to grow cellular clones—lines of cells descended from individual cells—so they could harness those unique traits.
Chpt 2.13clones = genetically identical copies made with technology
- With HeLa, a group of scientists in Colorado succeeded, and soon the world of science had not only HeLa but also its hundreds, then thousands, of clones.
Chpt 2.13
- The early cell culture and cloning technology developed using HeLa helped lead to many later advances that required the ability to grow single cells in culture, including isolating stem cells, cloning whole animals, and in vitro fertilization.
Chpt 2.13cloning = using technology to make genetically identical copies of an organism
- The early cell culture and cloning technology developed using HeLa helped lead to many later advances that required the ability to grow single cells in culture, including isolating stem cells, cloning whole animals, and in vitro fertilization.
Chpt 2.13
- The room buzzed with excitement as everyone talked about cell cloning and hybrids, mapping human genes, and using cultures to cure cancer.
Chpt 2.20
- After hearing a researcher talk about cloning, Deborah asked Sharrer whether it was possible to take DNA from HeLa cells and put it into one of Deborah's eggs to bring her mother back to life.
Chpt 3.28
- "They did that cloning on my mother over there," she said, surprised I hadn't come across that fact in my research.
Chpt 3.29
- A reporter came here from England talking about they cloned a sheep.
Chpt 3.29cloned = copied using technology
- Now they got stuff about cloning my mother all over.
Chpt 3.29cloning = using technology to make genetically identical copies of an organism
- The writer joked that Henrietta should have put ten dollars in the bank in 1951, because if she had, her clones would be rich now.
Chpt 3.29clones = genetically identical copies made with technology
- I started saying it was just Henrietta's cells scientists had cloned, not Henrietta herself.
Chpt 3.29cloned = copied using technology
- She held up another videocassette, this one a made-for-TV movie called The Clone.
Chpt 3.29clone = a copy of an organism with identical genetics created through technology
- In it, an infertility doctor secretly harvests extra embryos from one of his patients and uses them to create a colony of clones of the woman's son, who died young in an accident.
Chpt 3.29clones = genetically identical copies made with technology
- That poor woman didn't even know about all the clones until she saw one walk out of a store.
Chpt 3.29
- I don't know what I'd do if I saw one of my mother clones walkin around somewhere.
Chpt 3.29
- And you don't lie and clone people behind their backs.
Chpt 3.30clone = make genetically identical copies with technology
- Deborah yelled on the other end, "I told you London cloned my mother!"
Chpt 3.31cloned = copied using technology
- She'd Googled HeLa, clone, London, and DNA, and gotten thousands of hits with summaries like this, from an online chat-room discussion about HeLa cells: "Each contains a genetic blueprint for constructing Henrietta Lacks…."
Chpt 3.31clone = make genetically identical copies with technology
- Her mother's name showed up under headlines like CLONING and HUMAN FARMING, and she thought those thousands of hits were proof that scientists had cloned thousands of Henriettas.
Chpt 3.31cloning = using technology to make genetically identical copies of an organism
- Her mother's name showed up under headlines like CLONING and HUMAN FARMING, and she thought those thousands of hits were proof that scientists had cloned thousands of Henriettas.
Chpt 3.31cloned = copied using technology
- "They didn't clone her," I said.
Chpt 3.31clone = make a genetically identical copy with technology
- But if they cloning her cells, does that mean someday they could clone my mother?
Chpt 3.31cloning = using technology to make genetically identical copies of an organism
- But if they cloning her cells, does that mean someday they could clone my mother?
Chpt 3.31clone = make a genetically identical copy with technology
- There was a long list of the different HeLa clones anyone could buy for $167 a vial.
Chpt 3.32clones = genetically identical copies of an organism made with technology
- They even did that thing … what do you call it … um … cloning!
Chpt 3.35cloning = using technology to make genetically identical copies of an organism
- … that's right, they did that cloning on her.
Chpt 3.35
- "There are no clones," I said.
Chpt 3.35clones = genetically identical copies of an organism made with technology
- She'd Googled HeLa, clone, London, and DNA, and gotten thousands of hits with summaries like this, from an online chat-room discussion about HeLa cells: "Each contains a genetic blueprint for constructing Henrietta Lacks.... Can we clone her?†
Chpt 3.31
Definitions:
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(clone as in: Can we clone it?) to make a copy of something -- especially a genetically identical copy created with technology
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(clone as in: It is a clone.) a copy of something -- especially an organism with identical genetics created through technology