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Time for #HematologyTweetstory 7: the origin and expanding use of the word “clone”, which describes an essential concept in cancer biology and hematology. This tale involves a global banana catastrophe, a nearly-blind dystopian novelist, and an excursion to the planet Kamino./1
In 1903, the year of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, a widely respected US Department of Agriculture plant breeder named Herbert J. Webber (1865-1946) was looking for a word to describe asexual propagation of plants by grafting or by transplant of cuttings./2
As a botanical concept, asexual propagation was certainly not a new one – a 6th century C.E. Alexandrian philosopher, John Philoponus, had described the process using the term clados (κλάδων, meaning “twig” or “branch”), the origin of the contemporary taxonomy term “clade”./3
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