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Most docking stations are close to the same, but there are exceptions such as SilverStones TS12C that Im taking a closer look at today. It isnt just a docking station for two drives, it also comes with a system-less cloning feature.

I loved SilverStones TS11C when I reviewed it last year, so I reached out to SilverStone as soon as I saw the TS12C being announced. At the base, its more or less the same unit, but with a cloning-mutation added. The basic design has stayed the same with the aluminium body, sturdy stand, and ABS plastic cover.

The added cloning feature requires a few more physical buttons and indicators. We get those in the form of access and progress LEDs as well as modeselection and start buttons. The direct usage of the cloning feature allows for a PC-less usage and thats great. Especially when you clone something like an 8TB or 10TB HDD, then youll love the PC-less feature. It will take a long time and there is no need to occupy a system with the task when you dont have to.

The SilverStone TS12C comes with the latest generation of USB connection. It gives it the performance to handle SSDs with full speed, allowing for great transfer speeds. The docking station uses USB 3.1 Gen.2 with up to 10Gbps bandwidth and that is plenty for a 6Gbps drive. The docking station also supports UASP (USB Attached Serial Protocol) for improved performance. The UASP feature allows for commands to be executed at once without the connected drive having to reply with a done command before receiving the next order.

The setup couldnt be easier. Connect the power, connect the USB cable, and plug in a drive or two. Power it on and youre good to go. A docking station principally allows for a tool-less installation where drives just are inserted. The TS12C supports both plug-and-play usage as well as drive hot-swapping.

There is full support for 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives in this docking station. The largest part of each drive bay is covered with a lid which folds back by itself when you insert a 3.5-inch drive. The 2.5-inch opening is always free.

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While the SilverStone TS12C has two drive bays, it doesnt support RAID 0 and RAID 1 setups. You can only run the disks in JBOD mode (Just a Bunch Of Disks) when connected to a PC. When the system isnt connected to the PC, it works as a headless cloning station. At the press of a button, the TS12C will clone disk one onto disk two.

It doesnt matter whether you use 32GB drives or 12TB drives, the SilverStone TS12C will take them all. There is no size limitation, at least not for the foreseeable future. All SATA drives are supported, from SATA 1 to 3, and so are small 2.5-inch and larger 3.5-inch drives.

The operations are handled by two controllers on the inside. Both are from ASMedia and they are the ASM1542 and the ASM1352R chips. The ASM1542 is a passive switch controller with 10Gbps support while theASM1352R is ASMedias single chip solution to bridge the USB 3.1 to dual SATA interface.

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An ex-employee of a CP cafe was recently booked for allegedly cloning credit and debit cards of customers and using them for transactions worth over Rs6lakh. After this incident, we found out it wasn't a rare case and card cloning has become a major headache for the Delhi Police.

The police tells us that they receive around 15 cases of card cloning every month on an average. Earlier this year, similar cases of card skimming were reported in restaurants in Mumbai. The chances of card cloning is higher in fancy restaurants and malls since people don't pay attention to who they are handing the card to, the police says.

15 cases of card cloning every month in Delhi Bhishm Singh, DCP, Cyber Crime, says, "The Cyber Crime Branch of Delhi Police receives at least 15 card cloning cases every month. Your card can be cloned only when you hand it to someone. People tend to give their cards to the waiters or attendants for payment in restaurants. Ab woh aapke card ke saath kya karta hai, aapko kya pata. And there are more chances of these things at high-end places because people trust these venues."

In case of card frauds, immediate police report crucial Madhur Verma, DCP, Crime, says, "Besides card skimming, people also get duped when shopping online or sharing their bank details with someone." With an increase in cases of cyber crime, police stations are also learning to deal it. Verma adds, "Now, most police stations have a cyber cell. People need to be alert, especially if their card is being swiped twice or thrice while making payment. Any discrepancy should be immediately reported."

Hotels, restaurants and malls easy target: Shop owners Most shop owners in the city have the option of card payments, but say that they have to keep a check on who is sitting at the payment counter. "At our shops, we do not take the risk of making the staff sit at the payment counter. The card reader is a small machine, which is easily available in the market. Anyone with little technical knowledge can learn to create a copy of cards. There are high chances of such cases at hotels, restaurants or petrol pumps, where many people walk in and hand over their cards to the staff. In shops, we can monitor every transaction closely," says Sanjeev Mehra, who has a shop in Khan Market. But Sanjay Chawla, who is handling operations at a mall in Janakpuri, says otherwise. He says, "The accountability for a transaction at a store in any mall lies on the store manager. In malls, there have been lesser cases of card cloning as there are CCTV cameras."

A shop owner in Bengali Market adds, "We have staff working with us for years, but no one is authorised to accept cards from customers and make transactions. In case the customer offers to pay by card, they direct him to the counter where only the owners sit."

Rise in card cloning after demonetisation: Lawyers Lawyers who have dealt with cases related to card cloning say that there has been a significant rise in the numbers of cases after demonetisation. Sandeep Kapur, a lawyer, explains, "As the government moves towards a cashless economy, the importance of credit and debit cards is increasing. Card cloning involves illegally transferring details from an original to a duplicate or a cloned card, resulting in misappropriation of funds. Although the government claimed that cases of card and net banking fraud were reduced by 6% in 2016, technological developments and lack of awareness among cardholders has led to an increase in such scams in the recent months." Kapur adds, "Victims can get FIRs registered with the local police under the IPC and IT Act, thereby initiating criminal proceedings to apprehend, recover money and punish the culprits. While cyber laws are exhaustive and the police's cyber cells are well-equipped to follow white money trail, greater cooperation by banks and sensitization of this topic among cardholders is needed."

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After CRISPR, theres a new genetic technique with a tongue-in-cheek name in town: LASSO cloning.

Researchersfrom four institutions, including the US-based John Hopkins, Rutgers and Harvard, and the University of Trento in Italy, have developed a new technology tostudy large chunks of DNA and their function. The work behind it was recently published inNature Biomedical Engineering,and a patent was filed earlier this month.

This molecular tool is called long adapter single-stranded oligonucleotide, or LASSO for short. The lasso rope metaphor applies to the tools mechanism, which can capture and clone long sequences of DNA fragments. Fragment length had so far been the main challenge for cloning probes and the genome sequencing field at large. Next generation sequencing (NGS), which has gained a lot of attention in medical research, relies on sequencing short fragments that are then put together, like a puzzle, by bioinformatics tools. However, this method falls short for certain types of samples. Short reads capture only about 100 basepairs, or DNA letters, at a time, while LASSO can read more than1000 base pairs.

As a proof of concept, the researchers set out to test LASSO probes in biotechs favorite microorganism,E. coli. The tool managed to simultaneously clone over 3000 DNA fragments of the genome ofE. coli, capturing around 75% of the targets and leaving almost all of the non-targeted DNA alone, and the studys authors say theres still certainly room for improvement.

LASSO cloning should enable the scientific community to build libraries of a given organisms protein in a much faster and cheaper way, democratizing research that was so far only within the reach of big research consortia. The usefulness of such studies ranges from a better understanding of organisms to the ability to screen large libraries of natural enzymes and compounds that could be valuable leads in drug discovery,as it has been done before for some species likePenicilliumfungistrains, for example.

One of the organisms to be better studied is, of course, human beings. Researchers already tested LASSO cloning with human DNA, something has the potential to yield new biomarkers for a range of diseases. Another focus of interest is the human microbiome. As described in the same paper, LASSO was used to build the first protein library of the microbiome, and the research team hopes that it can improve precision medicine strategies that takeinto account the microbes living within us.

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PUNE/MUMBAI: The Hadapsar police on Thursday booked a Byculla resident for running a major card-cloning racket. Senior inspector Vishnu Pawar of Hadapsar police said, "On Thursday, we registered a complaint against an unidentified man under the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act for transferring Rs 8,000 from the salary account of Bramhanand Pandit (28), an engineer working with a private firm in Hinjewadi, on March 10." "We later came to know that the suspect Sayyed Masrafe (30), who was in the custody of the Bandra police since his arrest on January 18, was involved in this case too. Masrafe was remanded in judicial custody and sent to Arthur road jail on Thursday," Pawar said. The racket was being run since 2016 with the help of six hotel waiters from various places. The gang had cloned details of at least 1,000 debit/credit cards belonging to 96 different banks. It used to mainly operate in Pune, Mumbai and Thane. Masrafe's arrest has helped the police in solving 25 cases.

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Dolly the cloned sheep was born more than two decades ago on July 5. As the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, she remains one of the most famous cloned creatures today.

Since then, cloning has progressed greatly, but the process occupies anethical gray area. Animal cloning may have the potential tobring back extinct species, but according to a Gallup poll conducted earlier this year, most Americans do not morally support cloning. When considering the future of cloning, here are some animal rights concerns to keep in mind.

Cloned animals often live shorter and sicklierlives than their naturally produced counterparts. For instance, the New Zealand-based AgResearch shut its doors in 2011 because too many animals died in its studies.Only 10 percent of the cloned animals even survived research trials, according to the company. The National Human Genome Research Instituteadds that cloned sheep can bebigger at birth and have defective livers, brains and hearts. They also tend to die younger.

In 2013, UK pet owners got the opportunity to clone beloved dogs after they died. However, the process set some people up for disappointment when their new pet isntthe same as itsgenetic counterpart. Care2s Steve Williams explainsthat these expectations could lead owners to get rid of their dogs, whether byreturning them, taking them to an animal shelter or opting for euthanasia.

As the Humane Society of the United States notes, pet cloning doesnt get the same federal scrutiny that animal testing facilities do in the United States. The Department of Agriculture doesnt even require those cloning cats and dogs to follow the bare-bones rules of the Animal Welfare Act.

Animals involved in cloning are often exposed to painful and invasive research practices and kept in sterile, uncomfortable conditions. As the Humane Society says, The egg donors and/or surrogate mothers are subjected to painful hormone treatments to manipulate their reproductive cycles. These animals are also subjected to invasive surgery to harvest eggs or implant embryos, and the surrogate mothers endure an additional surgery to deliver the baby.

From a more abstract line of thought, some argue cloning devalues animals because it treats them as commodities. A paper from the University of Pennsylvanias Center for Bioethicsstates:

While cloning opponents admit that animals are already considered property and products, they argue that cloning takes this objectification to new levels. Life for animals in agriculture, research, and the pharmaceutical industry is already bad enough, its argued; cloning will desensitize us further from the suffering of these entities, placing them even more firmly in the thing category.

While cloning has its place, these ethical problems must be addressed.

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Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author and may not reflect those of Care2, Inc., its employees or advertisers.

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Next time you enter into a high-end bar or cafe at Connaught Place in the heart of the city, take precautions that your debit and credit cards are not being cloned.

The precautions are especially important after an employee of Farzi Cafe, in Connaught Place, was booked for allegedly cloning cards and cheating over 10 customers to the tune of Rs 6 lakh rupees.

"The total amount was upto the tune of Rs 6,03,500. Based on the consumers' complaint, an FIR was registered and an investigation was taken up. The bank officials told the police that over ten customers had informed them about illegal transactions. Acting on this, the police approached the cafe and later registered a case," said a senior police officer.

According to the police, one of the employees of the cafe identified as Mohammad Adrul Islam Barduiya was zeroed down upon after his actions in CCTV cameras installed at the cafe seemed suspicious. The management at the cafe co-operated with the police and even conducted an internal enquiry which led them to identify the suspect.

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After successfully cloning Snapchat in every product under its umbrella, Facebook has set its sights on another social network thats quickly growing among teenagers: Houseparty.

Houseparty came to life about a year ago after developer Life On Air shut down Meerkat over fierce competition from Twitter-owned Periscope, and pivoted from live streaming to group video chats instead. The app took off fairly quickly and by November 2016 it had 1.2 million users spending 20 million minutes a day on it, with the main demographic being teenagers.

Now the startup is reportedly set to face-off with Facebooks own take on group video chats. According to The Verge, the app has the working name Bonfire, and is said to offer near-identical functionality for starting group video calls instantly.

As The Verge rightly notes, if Facebook succeeds, it would represent the second time in as many years that a Life On Air innovation is cloned and squashed by larger competitors.

Facebook hasnt always succeeded when building their own take on a popular concept it was inspired by Snapchats ephemeral messaging to create the ill-fated Slingshot and Bolt, but it wasnt until it blatantly copied Snapchat that they hit the mark. It sounds like they might skip beating around the bushes this time around and simply clone Houseparty too.

The app is being targeted for a fall release.

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Robotic Pig Cloning in China Considered Successful China Christian Daily When you think robotic cloning is only realistic on movies, think again because a report claimed that a robotic pig cloning in China appeared to be successful ... and more »

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We wont pretend to know the complicatedscientific processes that go intocreatinga genetic clone of someone, this isnta science journal after all. However, it doesnt take a scientist torecognize when cloning has gone horribly wrong. Clones both good and bad are a staple of both pulp fiction and comicbooks. Clones and evil twins alike haveappeared in every major superhero book on the shelves for decades. Its a concept that makes sense, to clone a powerful hero or villainso you canhave a superhuman under your control or toreplace a lost one.

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However, sometimes it doesnt work out the way you planned. Sometimes the clone is evil, or maybe you wanted them to be evil but they turned out good. Heck, maybe theirvery presence in comics is enough to make them horrible duplicates, muddling up narratives and story arcs. Its a good thing that cloning isnt a readily available technology in comics, or else thered be a bunch of unnecessary duplicates running around. Of the few clones that have gotten loose (or still are), there are definitely some dysfunctional duplicates, which is why CBR decided to countdown the 15 worst clones in comics.

Though his name is arguably a lot cooler than the original, this Bart Allen/Impulse clone is kind of the worst. An evil duplicate, Inertia was named Thaddeus Thawne II by his creator President Thaddeus Thawne. President Thawne created Thaddeus II after failing to recruit Bart Allen (part Thawne himself) into the long-standing war between the Thawne and Allen Families. After this failure, he cloned Bart and created Inertia to replace Bart in the past.

The opposite of Bart Allen in many ways, Thaddeus is not only, as Wally West put it, an irredeemable sociopath with Barts face, he also ages slower. While Impulse aged up to 15 in only 2 years, Thaddeus grew up slower and learned to be more calculating and methodical, not impulsive. After his first attack on Max Mercury (Impulses mentor) Inertia would go on to have a long rivalry with Impulse.

Created from the cells of Emma Frost, the Stepford Cuckoos were grown for the purpose of being able to kill every mutant on Earth. The Cuckoos are powerful telepaths that become more powerful by combining their powers into one hive mind. Fitting since they all look, dress and act alike.

The sisters Celeste, Esme, Irma, Phoebe and Sophie definitely live up the name Stepford. For those of you who dont know, this is in reference to The Stepford Wives, a book about an idyllic neighborhood full of submissive housewives that seem to act like perfect robots (because, SPOILER, they are). While the Cuckoos are far from submissive, they definitely keep a prim and proper appearance and demeanor about them, to the extent of being rather stuck up and snobby. But well forgive them since they have been a powerful asset to the X-Men for quite some time now.

Guy Gardner is already kind of a jerk. Hes loud, he brash and hes not all that keen on authority. So what would an evil clone of him be like? Enter Joe Gardner, a clone of Guy created by the Draal. The Draalarean alien race bent on controlling the Green Lantern Corpsthrough clones of the guardians. They attempted to do just that with Joe Gardner, but it didnt work out quite like they planned.

During the cloning, Guy tampered with the process, causing mental problems with the duplicate including loss of memories and psychopathic tendencies. Afterfailing to destroy and replace Guy, Joe wasnt heard from for a while. He returned laters as the Enforcer, capturing Green Lanterns and selling them as slaves. Without Guys morality, Joe is justa psychopath with a power ring. Not a good combination.

ARussian mutant and graduate of the Weapon Xprogram, Arkady Rossovich was once a serial killer with life-draining powers. He was equipped with retractable carbonadiumtentacles in each hand by Weapon X to increase his literal and figurative reach, becoming a powerful mercenary for various evil organizations until his death by Wolverine.

This wasnt the last of Omega Red, however, as an organization known as The White Sky was commissioned to create clones of the villain. These three were Omega Black, a female clone with carbonadium tentacles in her chest; Omega White, a clone with the power to create energy constructs; and Omega Red, a clone that was almost exactly the same as the original. Dubbed The Omega Clan the clones were created for the purpose of hunting and killing mutants.

Despite being raised to be an assassin to kill his father, Damian Wayneeventually grewinto his own as both a sidekick to Batman, and as his own person. Talia Al Ghul did not wish for any of this, she wanted Damian to help her enact her plan to have a perfect family with Batman, a family that could rule the world together. After Damian sided with Batman, she decided to take more drastic measures.

Enter Heretic, a clone of Damian created to be the perfect child, one who could help Tahlia enact her plans. The clone was trained much like Damian, but was genetically modified, surgically enhanced and gestated in a whales body to have peak human strength. If thats not weird enough, his rapid aging and growth gave Heretic the body of a muscular adult with the head of a child. Creepy.

Originally known as Nathanial Essex, Mr. Sinister was once a brilliant biologist in 19th Century England. Essex was shunned by his peers both for his immoral methods of human experimentation and his theories on a great mutation that existed in humanity. Eventually, Essex would fall into the hands of this great mutation when Apocalypse himself awoke and granted Essex great power and immortality. Essex renamed himself Mr. Sinister, becoming the villain we all know and love.

As a biologist and villain, it makes sense that Mr. Sinister is a fan of cloning. Sinister has cloned both himself and others countless times. He oft uses clones of himself to stand in during attempts on his life or to merelystroke his own ego. Sinister has also created various clones of other mutants include Jean Grey and Hank McCoy, each being used in some crazy and convoluted plot against the X-Men.

Speaking of Mr. Sinister Clones, Madelyne Pryor is the worst of them all. Cloned from Jean Grey, Sinister created her with the purpose of being a stand-in for the original. This is where things get creepy, as Sinister believed that anoffspring between Jean Grey and Cyclops would create a powerful mutant, one strong enough to defeat apocalypse. However, Jean grey was known to be a bit reckless, so Sinister created the clone to replace her and create his desired mutant offspring. Gross.

If that wasnt bad enough, Madelyne and Scott actually would have a child who would eventuallybecomeCable. Itwas also Madelyne herself who infected the infant Nathan Summers with his techno organic virus. She did so as the Goblin Queen, a persona she chose after turning on Scott Summers and the X-Men, brandishing powerful telekinesis, telepathy and a wide variety of magical, reality-warping spells.

From the pages of Robert KirkmansInvincible, The Mauler Twins are simultaneously some of Invincibles best and worst enemies. Massive, strong, durable and brilliant, The Twins are actually clones. Or rather, one clone and the original, though they might both be clones man this is confusing. Whichever combination it is, the original Mauler mastered cloning technology and used it to create a clone to do his bidding.

His plan didnt work out too well, however, since his clone gained all of his memories and thoughts, believing himself to be the original. While they are evil geniuses, the Maulers plans are often halted due in part to their own bickering over who is the original and who his the clone. Further, what makes these two blues the worst is that they are in part responsible for creating one of Invincibles deadliest and most ruthless villains, Angstrom Levy.

Some people might be confused with this entry. We know that the original Charles Xavier as he appeared for most of his X-Men comics career was in fact the original Charles Xavier.However, after having his body implanted with a Brood egg, Charles was under the control of the hive mind aliens. He even created the New Mutants under Brood control as a means of creating more hosts for reproduction of the aliens. The creature inside Charles would eventually destroy his body, but leave his soul intact.

After defeating the creature that burst forth from the professor, the X-Men were able to recover Charles soul from the monster, but it was without a body. However, thanks to the Starjammers, the X-Men were able to clone Charles a new body, one that was a bit younger and had functioning legs. Aint that convenient?

In a somewhat controversial story arc, Dr. Otto Octavius, A.K.A. Dr. Octopus, cheated death by switching bodies with Peter Parker, or so we thought. At the end ofSuperior Spider-Man, Peters consciousness has reclaimed his body and Otto Octavius is out of the picture. Fortunately for Ock though, he put in safety protocols so that his consciousness would survive and, after a long, arduous process of finding his original body, he was able to clone himself a young, superior body tooccupy.

With hisnew young body and his tentacles back in his hands, Doctor Octopus was back. Hisbody also had a bit of Peters DNA since, after his time in Spider-Mans body, Otto became obsessed with it (that sounds creepy) and determined it to be absolutely perfect (even creepier), thus he wanted some of his genetic material for himself (were sorry).

*Warning: The following contains spoilers forInvincible*

Also from the pages ofInvincible, Robot is a rather interesting character. Originally thought to just be a sentient robot of sorts, fans of the Image series would later learn that the character had a lot more going for him. Born a disabled and deformed human, Rudy used his vast intelligence to build a robot drone to control and live through. But living life as a robot was not enough for him.

This is where things get kind of creepy. After noticing a fellow superhero and love interest Monster Girl was attracted to Guardians of the Globe teammate Rex Splode, Robot used Rexs DNA to clone himself a new body. The new body, made to be the same age as Monster Girl, served as a host for his memories and thoughts and he would kill his original deformed self. It gets worse too, since Robot would eventually seek world domination.

Theres quite a few clone stories in Spider-Man comics, each more confusing than the last. Perhaps the most well-known, and most controversial, is the Ben Reilly clone saga. Back in the 70s, Spider-Man villain and serial cloner Jackal created a duplicate of Spider-Man, pittingthe two Spider-Men against each other, each believing themselves to be true Peter Parker. After the battle, Peter thought the clone had died and dumped his body.

However, the clone survived and started a new life for himself as Ben Reilly. The most controversial part of Bens clone saga was whenBen was revealed to be the original, and Peter the clone. Fans were shocked by this revealand the following stories in which Ben Reilly took over as Spider-Man. Eventually though, readers were relieved to find out the tests results were switched by a manipulative Norman Osborne.

After the death of Superman Project Cadmus decided to clone him and create their own man of steel, one that would follow theirorders. However, cloning Kryptonians isnt as easy at it seems. Instead of a Superman clone, Cadmus genetically engineered a human to look exactly like Superman and decided to replicate Kryptonian powers by other means. This came in the form of a telekinetic aura surrounding their clone, one that would give him flight, strength, invulnerability and limited super speed. There was, however, another problem with their clone.

Despite being designed to replace Superman, the clone was released too early, having only aged to a teenager. Nicknamed Superboy, and eventually dubbed Conner Kent/Kon-El, this Superman Clone had quite the career with the Teen Titans, rocking a spiffy, but kind of dorky costume before going casual withhis signature shirt and pants look.

Created by The Agenda, this clone has, well,an agenda. Match was created to be Superboys match (man these people are literal), cloned from his DNA and given his memories. Meant to destroy Superboy and further The Agendas agenda, Match had much more control over his superpowers, due in part to the data downloaded into his brain, an advantage he had over his originator. However, as strong as this clone was, he was eventually defeated by Superboy, and thats not Matchs only imperfection.

Matchs genetic coding was susceptible to deterioration; as a result, his body eventually started to rot away. This gave Match an appearance and demeanor similar to Bizarro. With a calcified face, rotting body and slurred, opposite-oriented speech, Match had essentially become Bizarro Superboy. In this state, he was much more forceful and violent, forcing his feelings upon Wonder Girl and attacking the Titans without mercy.

Alright, before we get angry comments on here, were not saying X-23 is THE WORST. We love her, shes badass and awesome, its just the circumstances surrounding her creation are pretty terrible. Originally appearing inX-Men Evolution, Laura Kinney was created to be the cloned daughterof Wolverine.

Laura was part of a Weapon X revival meant to create another soldier with adamantium-bonded bones. In an attempt to clone Wolverine as a subject for the process, they found their DNA samples were lacking a Y chromosome, so a female clone was proposed. A female embryo was grown inside the head scientist on the project, Dr. Sarah Kinney. Laura was born and subjected to horrible radiation poisoning to activate her mutant gene before having her claws ripped out and coated with adamantium. Jeeze, no wonder shes so grumpy, though that might be Logans genes at work.

Which clone do you think got the crappiest treatment? Let us know in the comments!

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