Camilla Swift Camilla Swift

Send in the clones

Prized polo ponies are already being reborn. It won’t be long before this is mass-market technology

issue 14 November 2015

How much do you love your dog? Do you secretly wish, as he or she grows older, that you could have another just the same? I’ll bet that tens of thousands of Brits feel this way — and soon their dreams could come true.

When most of us last thought about it, cloning was an off-putting and futuristic prospect.

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