Cloning

30 Morbid Minutes

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Cloning was once considered the stuff of science fiction. Now, to many, it’s the future and the natural evolution of humanity’s progress, survival, and experimentation as a species. To others, it’s an abomination; playing god. In this episode of 30 Morbid Minutes we’re diving into the background of and types of cloning, the ethical questions, and how much the science has changed in the last thirty years. Go to http://everlywell.com/30mm to get 20% off an at-home lab test. Go to http://dietsmoke.com and use promo code 30MM for 20% off. Follow us on Social: https://twitter.com/elysewillems https://twitter.com/JessicaVasami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.0	Is cloning the key to humanity's future or the first step down a slippery dystopian slope?
0:41.7	Welcome to 30 morbid minutes.
1:07.3	This is the podcast where we cover topics, people, places, ideas, and events of a morbid macab, dark and downright grisly nature, quite frankly.
1:12.3	It's an investigation of the human experience throughout history and today. I'm Elise Willems. And I'm Jessica Vasami. Dolly the sheep is by far the world's most famous sheep. And no,
1:19.0	not because she's a Hollywood actor or a TikToker. It's because of how Dolly was created. If you
1:25.1	were alive and self-aware in the early 90s, you definitely know her story.
1:29.2	Dolly came to be because a cell taken from the mammary gland of a six-year-old Finn Dorset sheep
1:34.6	was implanted into an egg cell taken from a Scottish blackface sheep, a process known as somatic
1:40.5	nuclear transfer. Carried by a surrogate sheep to term,
1:46.7	Dolly was born on July 5th, 1996,
1:51.7	and was given her own unique name as a nod to the incomparable country legend,
1:56.3	Dolly Parton, who has a bit of her own memory-related fame.
2:00.3	Yeah, it's sort of reductive because Dolly Parton is an awesome person and does a lot of good for a lot of people.
2:02.6	But yeah, it was the 90s.
2:04.1	Yes.
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