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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Goodbye Dolly
Both her birth and death stirred a raging debate. Dolly the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell was put to death on February 14, 2003. The six year old sheep was suffering from the fatal progressive lung disease
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Eve born, doubts yet to die down
If Bahamas-based cloning company Clonaid is to be believed, the world's first cloned baby, Eve, was born on December 26, 2002. The birth, at an undisclosed location, went "very well', according to
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Trouble with doubles
The science of cloning is in the nascent stage
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In Short
RIGHTS ISSUE: A patent on atta chakkis (flour mills). It sure was unexpected. But it's been granted. The latest victim of the patent rights regime is the Asian traditional knowledge of producing
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Genes and dreams
Scientists are on the breakthrough of better malaria drugs
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Pre emptive move
The ethical implications of human cloning have spurred the un General Assembly's legal committee into action. The panel is laying the groundwork for an international treaty that would ban the
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Shot in the arm
The Brazilian government will provide about us $2 million to support research in areas such as therapeutic cloning, which involves using cells and tissues from cloned human embryos to replace
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Smelling a rat
Cloned mice suffering from obesity shed more doubts on the cloning technique
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Copy cat
Researchers have recently successfully cloned a domestic cat. Al though the two-month-old kitten is just another addition to the growing list of successfully cloned animals, her birth may mark the
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JAPAN
Research carried out by scientists of Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases has revealed that cloned mice die earlier than mice conceived naturally. The research indicates that cloning