Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 36 - “Ple 2 Under Gravity” (重力下プルツー), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the history of cloning technology.

- Encyclopedia Britannica page on cloning generally, and a BBC timeline of animal-cloning.

- "The History of Cloning" from the University of Utah.

- Wikipedia pages for Robert Briggs, Thomas King, Tong Dizhou, and Steen Willadsen.

- Explanation of "cell potency."

- About David Rorvik (the former-journalist who wrote about his involvement in the alleged case of human cloning).

- The US Food and Drug Administration page on "Myths about Cloning."

- NIH National Human Genome Research Institute "Cloning Fact Sheet."

- Articles:

Robert G. McKinnell, Marie A. Di Berardino, The Biology of Cloning: History and Rationale, BioScience, Volume 49, Issue 11, November 1999, Pages 875–885, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313647

Liao, Lianming et al. “Stem cell research in China.” Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences vol. 362,1482 (2007): 1107-12. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2037. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2435574/.

Sullivan, Walter. “First Cloning of Mammals Produces 3 Mice.” The New York Times, 4 Jan. 1981, Section 1, pp. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/04/us/first-cloning-of-mammals-produces-3-mice.html

Budiansky S. Karl Illmensee: NIH withdraws research grant. Nature. 1984 Jun 28-Jul 4;309(5971):738. doi: 10.1038/309738a0. PMID: 6738687. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6738687/

Newmark, Peter. “Illmensee Inquiry: Fraud Charge Unproven, Researcher Resumes Duties.” Nature, vol. 307, no. 5953, 1984, pp. 673–673., doi:10.1038/307673a0. https://www.nature.com/articles/307673a0.pdf?origin=ppub.

Paul, Darcy A. “The Historical Development of Cloning Technology and the Role of Regulation in Ensuring Responsible Applications (2003 Third Year Paper).” Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, 2003, http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:8852108.

- The eulogy in this episode includes the song 'world of ruin' by Damiano Baldiano, licensed under a

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