Cloning humans? Current science, current views, and a perspective from Christianity

Differentiation

Volumn 69, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 184-187

  Brun, Rudolf B ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLONING; ETHICS; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; UNITED STATES;

CHRISTIANITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CLONING, ORGANISM; ETHICS; HUMANS; MORALS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PHILOSOPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036364696     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2002.690411.x     Document Type: Note

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