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One humanity, but two types of cloning
There was both a tragic and a timely element in the way that last week’s death of the Hollywood actor Christopher Reeve — best known for his leading role in the Superman films — has focused attention on a topic on which he became an ardent campaigner after being paralysed in a riding accident: the use of embryonic stem cells in research. His death coincided with two heated political debates around the issue.
