by rss feed | Sep 3, 2025 | animal cloning, cloning, human cloning, News Feeds, ViaGen
How does animal cloning work, and could human cloning become a reality soon? This came to mind again because of a recent piece in The Atlantic. Apparently, animal cloning is now so common that there are even races of horses that are clones of each other. Camel cloning...
by rss feed | Aug 27, 2025 | Cathy Tie, cloning, CRISPR babies, Eriona Hysolli, He Jiankui wife, Manhattan Project CRISPR, News Feeds
A tech entrepreneur named Cathy Tie is talking about eventually making gene-edited babies in the U.S. via something she is calling the Manhattan Project. What should we make of this? The fact that she recently married He Jiankui who made those three CRISPR’d...
by rss feed | Sep 24, 2023 | artificial wombs, cloning, neuraink, News Feeds, weekly reads
It feels like we are marching towards a future in which key aspects of human reproduction, including the use of artificial wombs, could be substantially different than for most of history. The FDA is considering allowing a clinical trial for use of artificial wombs in...
by rss feed | Jul 10, 2022 | cloning, Educational, human cloning, News Feeds, weekly reads
Cloning is one of those topics that both fascinates and kind of scares people, especially the idea of duplicating people. I regularly cover the topic here on The Niche because stem cell technologies are involved. Also, one form of the process sometimes called...
by rss feed | Jan 19, 2022 | cloning, human cloning, News Feeds
One of the most interesting parts of running a website like The Niche is that reader’s questions can sometimes be so striking including recent ones on human cloning. They got me thinking about cloning again. Human cloning & loss of a loved one: things to...
by rss feed | Oct 11, 2020 | cloning, COVID-19, CRISPR, CRISPR babies, H3.3, intestinal organoids, News Feeds, organoids, Trump COVID-19, Trump fetal tissue, Trump stem cells
As a researcher, is there ever enough time to get to everything that you want to read especially in newer areas like stem cells, organoids, and CRISPR, without even including non-scientific reads like Shakespeare or a new novel or something like that? Hopefully,...
