Cloning

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Health & Medicine

The moral status of human-monkey chimeras

As scientists create human-monkey chimera embryos for the first time, the research raises the philosophical and ethical issue of moral status: how should we treat other life forms?

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Arts & Culture

Blade Runner 2049: Identity, humanity and discrimination

Blade Runner 2049, like the original, is about what it means to be human. But the ethical implications of cloning could prophesize an ethically fraught future

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