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    "as summarized by Metacelsus",
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    "What happens when you clone a mouse for 58 generations?",
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  "textContent": "In 2005, a husband-and-wife team at Japan's RIKEN institute ran an experiment with a mouse: clone it, then clone the clone, then clone that clone, and keep going. Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama and Dr. Sayaka Wakayama kept it up for 20 years — through lab moves, a 2011 earthquake, and the pandemic — requiring 30,947 individual cloning attempts to produce 58 successive generations, as summarized by Metacelsus. — Read the rest \n\nThe post What happens when you clone a mouse for 58 generations? appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "What happens when you clone a mouse for 58 generations?"
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