FOREWORD by Cosima Herter
INTRODUCTION: Welcome to the trip
CHAPTER ONE: “How many of us are there?” The history & science of clones
CASE STUDY: Sarah Manning
CASE STUDY: Alison Hendrix
CHAPTER TWO: “There’s only one of me” Nature versus nurture
CASE STUDY: Cosima Niehaus
CHAPTER THREE: “You’re just a bad copy of me” Kendall Malone: one person, two cell lines
CASE STUDY: Elizabeth Childs
CASE STUDY: Tony Sawicki
CHAPTER FOUR: “This is my biology, my decision” Synthetic biology and human experimentation
CASE STUDY: Helena
CHAPTER FIVE: “My poor, poor Rachel” Rachel’s brain injury
CASE STUDY: Rachel Duncan
CHAPTER SIX: “Your little girls are dying” The clone disease
CASE STUDY: M. K. (Veera Suominen)
CASE STUDY: Krystal Goderitch
CHAPTER SEVEN: “And we, here, shall drink from the fountain first” Prolongevity and regeneration
THE CONVERSATION: Graeme Manson and Cosima Herter
Glossary
Orphan Black and History: A Timeline
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
An official guide to the science in the hit TV show Orphan Black by science writers Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth, featuring exclusive insights from co-creator Graeme Manson and science consultant Cosima Herter. The Science of Orphan Black takes you behind the closed doors of the Dyad Institute and inside Neolution.