Literature Review
*Cibelli, J., & Wilmut, I., & Jaenisch, R., & Lanza, R., & West, M.D., & Campbell, K. H. S.
(2014). Principles of Cloning. Waltham, MA: Academic Press.
This book is more on the technical side and is probably too advanced for general readers;
however it provides one of the most current overviews of emerging and newly-developed
techniques for this type of technology. One of these applications is to reduce genetic variation in
laboratory animals, which eliminates confounding factors for studies. Interestingly, the use of
clones can eliminate the study pool of animals, since heterogeneous animals can cause a
coefficient greater than .90. This text claims that a study pool can be reduced to N2, down from
a study pool of forty, and of course animal welfare advocates will appreciate this fact as well.
The maintenance of study animals costs researches $3,000-$6,000 per animal annually, so this
technology will also help to expand research by lowering overhead. Especially in the research
areas of disease prevention and cure this technology will represent a great humanistic
achievement.
Fairbanks, S. D. (2004). Cloning: Chronology, Abstracts and Guide to Books. Hauppauge, NY:
Nova Publishers.
This is an incredible book that provides a chronology of events, starting with the cloning
of Dolly the sheep, through a timeline that includes all significant cloning experiments as well as
the first experiment using human cells. The book also contains presidential actions and
*Cibelli, J., & Wilmut, I., & Jaenisch, R., & Lanza, R., & West, M.D., & Campbell, K. H. S.
(2014). Principles of Cloning. Waltham, MA: Academic Press.
This book is more on the technical side and is probably too advanced for general readers;
however it provides one of the most current overviews of emerging and newly-developed
techniques for this type of technology. One of these applications is to reduce genetic variation in
laboratory animals, which eliminates confounding factors for studies. Interestingly, the use of
clones can eliminate the study pool of animals, since heterogeneous animals can cause a
coefficient greater than .90. This text claims that a study pool can be reduced to N2, down from
a study pool of forty, and of course animal welfare advocates will appreciate this fact as well.
The maintenance of study animals costs researches $3,000-$6,000 per animal annually, so this
technology will also help to expand research by lowering overhead. Especially in the research
areas of disease prevention and cure this technology will represent a great humanistic
achievement.
Fairbanks, S. D. (2004). Cloning: Chronology, Abstracts and Guide to Books. Hauppauge, NY:
Nova Publishers.
This is an incredible book that provides a chronology of events, starting with the cloning
of Dolly the sheep, through a timeline that includes all significant cloning experiments as well as
the first experiment using human cells. The book also contains presidential actions and
