Re: Clones and aging

Tony Benjamin Csoka (csoka@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:01:17 -0800 (PST)


John K Clark wrote re Dolly:

>It will also be interesting to observe her offspring. My bet is that she
>is normal in every way, time will tell.

I agree. It would also be interesting to clone Dolly herself, and then
clone the clone of Dolly, and so on. I'm curious how many times the
cloning cycle can be repeated before some form of degeneration sets in (if
at all).

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