Healthy ageing of cloned sheep
<p>The health of cloned animals generated by somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been of concern since its inception; however, there are no detailed assessments of late-onset, non-communicable diseases.
Genetic Cloning
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Cloning revives Himachal willows
willow trees are drying up in the Lahaul valley of Himachal Pradesh. The Himalayan Forest Research Institute (hfri), Shimla, says that in the past decade more than 3,000 trees have died from aphid
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• South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who is standing trial on charges of fraud and embezzlement for his team's research on stem cells, has resumed work on animal cloning. He has opened a
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Korean cloning expert quits
Hwang Woo-Suk, who cloned the first human embryo for harvesting stem cells for therapeutic use in 2004, resigned as the head of the World Stem Cell Hub, an international research body. The
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Another first in clones
Cloned wildcats breed naturally; implications for conservation
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Cloned animals
<b>1996:</b> Dolly (sheep): The first mammal cloned from the cell of adult sheep<br> <br><b> 2001:</b> Gaur (wild ox): Born to a cow surrogate, dies within 48 hours<br> <br><b>2001:</b> a Mouflon lamb: Clone of an endangered wild sheep native to the Mediterranean region<br> <br> <b> 2003:</b> a banteng (a threatened Javanese cattle): Cloned from an animal that died 20 years ago<br> <br><b> 2003/4:</b> Madge, Caty and Ditteaux (wildcats): Cloned from African wildcats
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Shielding from risk
Brazil's parliament is debating a wide-ranging bioethics bill, covering subjects from human cloning to genetically modified (gm) crops. The new legislation proposes the creation of a National Council
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Mesoamerican masters of biotechnology
Maize is undeniably humanity s greatest, and the first, feat of genetic engineering. But the success story cannot be attributed to modern humans. A recent research shows that it is only due to the selective breeding efforts of ancient Americans that maize
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Ready to eat?
In the beginning of November 2003, the us Food and Drug Administration (fda) released the findings of its risk assessment study on whether the meat and milk from cloned animals and their progeny
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Cloning constraint: The cloning of humans and other primates may not be possible with current techniques, indicates an experiment. Normally, during the natural division of healthy cells, chromosomes
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Inherent dangers
The hazards of cloning were revealed yet again after scientists in the us had to put to sleep one of two banteng calves they had cloned. The researchers took the step as the animal was