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View ArticleDoes Nature vs Nurture explain differences among clones?
The third season of BBC America’s critically acclaimed Orphan Black picked up right where it left off. Once again the defiant Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), brainy Cosima Niehaus (Tatiana Maslany),...
View ArticleWhat is "Evo-Devo's" role in Orphan Black
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View ArticleDoes epigenetic variation explain differences among clones?
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View ArticleIs it legal to own clones?
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View ArticleCan Kira's stem cells save Cosima?
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View ArticleCan the Project Castor prions be an STD?
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View ArticleIs the science presented in Contagion relevant and accurate?
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View ArticleThe Force of biology is strong in 'Star Wars'
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View ArticleAre 'spindle proteins' preventing human cloning on Orphan Black?
Last time we learned that modern synthetic biology is still (thankfully?) years away from synthesizing human genomes. But I also hinted that the challenge of writing a genome from scratch wasn’t the...
View ArticleDoes Nature vs Nurture explain differences among the clones in 'Orphan Black'?
The third season of BBC America’s critically acclaimed Orphan Black picked up right where it left off. Once again the defiant Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), brainy Cosima Niehaus (Tatiana Maslany),...
View ArticleWhat is "Evo-Devo's" role in Orphan Black?
Season 2 of Orphan Black left us with a couple of doozies. First and foremost, we found there is But we also found out that the scholarly clone Orphan Black Wikia - Cosima Niehaus (Tatiana Maslany) is...
View ArticleDoes epigenetic variation explain the differences among Orphan Black's clones?
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View ArticleIs it legal to own human clones as seen on 'Orphan Black?'
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View ArticleCan clones in 'Orphan Black' fall on different parts of the sexuality spectrum?
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View ArticleCan Kira's stem cells save Cosima in 'Orphan Black'?
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