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A 6 page overview of the phenomenal success achieved in South Korea in 2005 with the first successful dog clone. This paper compares two articles detailing the experiment, one from a peer-reviewed journal and written by the primary researchers and another from the popular press. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPcloneD.rtf
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Groundbreaking news in the sciences always seems to send reverberations around the world. Those reverberations spread through
a variety of mechanisms. These include both the professional peer-reviewed literature and the popular press. In considering the topic of cloning, for example, one might encounter anything from
pure science fiction, to heated yet flawed logic, to a logical and factual representation of the facts of the subject. Both
peer-reviewed professional literature and the popular literature play a similar yet distinctly different role in the perpetuation of information. Typically the popular press serves to repackage scientific findings in
a format that is more easily understood by the general public. Peer-reviewed journals, in contrast, are the format of choice for hard scientific research.
The peer review process insures in most cases that the research being published is indeed valid in design and conclusion. The differing function of
the popular press and the peer-reviewed journal can no better be illustrated than through a comparison of two articles from those sources. One of these articles, the primary research article,
is "Dogs cloned from adult somatic cells" published in the November 21, 2005 edition of "Nature" (Lee, Kim, Jang, Oh, Yuda, et al. 2005). The second article, "Dogged Pursuit"
published in the November 21, 2005 edition of "Time" by author Alice Parker is one of the hundreds of articles in the popular press this research prompted.
The work completed by Lee, Kim, Jang, Oh, Yuda, et al. (2005) at Seoul National University shook the world! They were the first team
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