![]() ![]() ![]() These developments precipitated a great deal of discussion-among the general public, in government, and at universities-regarding humankind’s moral obligation to cellular life. Thus, stem cells could be taken from an undeveloped zygote and used (at least theoretically) to generate cellular materials for the organs of fully-grown adults. One point of contention in the United States was the development of “stem-cell research,” or a set of scientific techniques that “farm” undifferentiated cells in order to shape them, and use them, for medical purposes. In the 1990s, scientists in the western world began work on cloning-the first “clone” ever created was a sheep named Dolly-and these advancements have also operated on the cellular level. ![]() Ishiguro wrote the novel at the beginning of the 21st-century, during a fast-moving period of development in the biological and medical sciences. ![]()
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