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cloning

ˈkloʊnɪŋ
WordNet
  1. (n) cloning
    a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)
Usage in the news

'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Recap: David Tennant Gets Robotic--In a Good Way. sau.com

'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Season 6 Likely Leaving Cartoon Network, Season 7 In Doubt. dez.com

On Jan 31, she introduced the Cloned Food Labeling Act, which would require that meat and milk from cloned animals be labeled. businessweek.com

A lab owned by California-based Genetic Savings and Clone is under construction in Waunakee. nbc15.com

There's no horsing around around at Viagen, a company in Austin, Texas that clones living animals, including horses. kyt.com

And this is the reason why we clone . kyt.com

While researchers have been racing to decode the human genome and policy-makers have been fretting over the first cloned human embryo, the low-profile flow of discoveries about the brain has turned into a flood. msnbc.msn.com

Cloning – more common than you might think. nevadaiowajournal.com

The clones will be kept in captivity as a reserve in case wild populations collapse. columbian.com

While still in its early stages, with the birth of a clone likely years away, the project represents Brazilian scientists' first foray into the cloning of wild animals, said team leader Carlos Frederico Martins, PhD. thetimes-tribune.com

Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal. slate.com

Keith Campbell, a British cell biologist who helped lead the team that created the cloned sheep Dolly, has passed away at the age of 58. slate.com

Ian Malcolm, the chaos theorist played by Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park, would surely find this to be a bad idea—Russian and Japanese scientists are planning to clone a woolly mammoth. pcmag.com

In 2005, researchers in South Korea claimed to have created the first human embryonic stem cells by cloning an embryo . cnn.com

Brazilian Scientists Plan to Clone Endangered Species - 4. outdoorlife.com

Usage in scientific papers

We consider now the problem of estimating the CP map pertaining to the 1-to-2 universal covariant cloning machine.
Characterising a universal cloning machine by maximum-likelihood estimation

Pure states at the input of the cloning machine have been used, together with pro jective measurements over the two clones at the output.
Characterising a universal cloning machine by maximum-likelihood estimation

In conclusion, we have applied a general method to reconstruct experimentally the completely positive map describing a physical device to the universal covariant cloning machine.
Characterising a universal cloning machine by maximum-likelihood estimation

The method, based on the maximum likelihood principle, involves the maximisation of a functional, which depends on the results of quantum measurements performed on the clones at the output.
Characterising a universal cloning machine by maximum-likelihood estimation

The well-known no-cloning theorem demonstrates that non-orthogonal states can not be cloned exactly.
Optimally Conclusive Discrimination of Non-orthogonal Entangled States Locally

Usage in literature

There's a training minicomputer, and a 10-meg local mini just for the Center, and a lab-full of student PC clones and half-a-dozen Macs or so. "Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling

He's a rare scamp, is Michael Clones! "No Defense, Complete" by Gilbert Parker

They recovered me from backup and into a force-grown clone at Toronto General. "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctorow

The chief towns are CLONES (2), and the county-town MONAGHAN (3), which has a produce market. "The Nuttall Encyclopaedia" by Edited by Rev. James Wood

Clones, Co. Monaghan: No provision. "The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902)" by John O'Rourke

You could have clone no better. "New National Fourth Reader" by Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes

Two hundred and twelve clones and 335 tests are reported. "Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943" by Various

Clones, which must be pronounced as a dissyllable, is a city set upon a hill which cannot be hid. "Ireland as It Is" by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Did he repent of the injury he had formerly clone him? "The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" by Various

The three meadows of Ireland: Clonmacnois, Clones, Clonard. "The Triads of Ireland" by Kuno Meyer

Usage in poetry
city-planners are mistaken: a pen
for a rational animal
is no fitting habitat for Adam's
sovereign clone. I, a transplant
"Lo! the time is close upon you when the madness of the season
Having howled itself to silence like a Minnesota 'clone,
Will at last be superseded by the still, small voice of reason,
When the whelpage of your folly you would willingly disown.