The relevance of these lengthy asides to the main issues is dubious, but Clone is worthwhile as an entertaining summary of the biology of the new millennium. In Remaking Eden Lee Silver, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, gives us a panoramic view of molecular genetics, sexual reproduction, in vitro fertilization, and cloning. His book is an outstanding achievement. Silver addresses the uninitiated with clear writing and straightforward explanations of complex phenomena, but experts, especially ethicists and policy makers, will also profit from reading this book. Any physician should find this book remarkable.
Silver analyzes the issues soberly, often with provocative examples.
The new sister's marrow was indeed a match, and five years later Anissa, now a hematopoietic chimera, appeared to be cured. Five hundred years later we have arrived at Dolly, and there is no way of turning back. Instead, the imperative is to use our knowledge with the compassion advocated by Lee Silver. Nature's laws cannot be broken. What we must understand is that Wilmut's feat revealed, rather than broke, the laws of nature.