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 | Sep 29, 2024 | Deja you, Diabetes, Hongkui Deng, human cloning, News Feeds, stem cells for diabetes
People often ask me what is the most promising new cell therapy and while it is difficult to choose just one, I often highlight the promise of stem cells for diabetes. Here in the U.S., early data from diabetes clinical trials by Vertex look encouraging. Other teams...
by rss feed | Jan 7, 2024 | horse cloning, human cloning, News Feeds, weekly reads
I’m trying to remember the first time I ever heard about clones. It had to be as a kid. Maybe in a monster movie or TV show? Possibly a clone was referred to by the more general term “double”, which is not necessarily a clone. Whatever it was,...
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 | Sep 8, 2021 | human cloning, News Feeds, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
I’ve been following the research related to human cloning now for more than a decade. Is human cloning more possible at this point? How do we even define such cloning? Did you know there are two types? The goal of this post is to educate you and in the process...
