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Published online 29 April 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040426-11

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Hollywood grapples with human cloning.

The thriller Godsend, which opens in the United States on 30 April, stars Robert De Niro as a maverick doctor who offers a couple the chance to clone their recently killed eight-year-old son. Their new child appears fine until he too reaches his eighth birthday, when terrifying differences between the two boys emerge.

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