Animal Cloning
 | Iran's first cloned goat was born on April 15th, 2009, 1:30 am at Isfahan campus of Royan Institute by cesarean section in a healthy condition. ...> Full Article |
 | The cloning of animals by nuclear transfer has been shown in a wide range of species from laboratory standards such as mice and rats, to agriculturally important sheep, pigs, horses and cows. The cloning procedure typically involves extracting the nucleus from a somatic cell taken from one animal (the donor) and injecting into a fertilizing egg from which the nucleus has been removed. The ability of the oocyte to reprogram the transferred nucleus from a somatic to a totipotent state remains one of the great mysteries of cell and developmental biology. But the fact that cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer remains a very low efficiency process has led many to believe that the integrity of the donor cells providing the genome may be critical to its success. ...> Full Article |
Picture the perfect steak. The first bite melts in your mouth, tender and dripping with flavor. You can barely keep chewing as your mind goes slack with joy. Yes, you could spend the rest of your life eating this same steak, over and over, with no complaint whatsoever.
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Long-term cloning program will aid in research on treating human diseases
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 | Professor Lee Byeong-cheon's team of Seoul National University Veterinary Medicine has produced the first-ever wolf clones. One clone is named Snuwolf and was born on October 18, 2005. The other is named Snuwolffy and was born on October 26, 2005. ...> Full Article |
Scientists from Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time.
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The USFDA said in a draft ruling that meat and milk from cloned animals is safe for human consumption. They’ve ruled that cloned cattle, pigs and goats produced food "as safe as the food we eat every day"
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Genetic Savings & Clone, the Sausalito, California company, that in 2004 created the first commecially cloned pet kitten
is going out of business at the end of this year. The company claims that demand for the cloned pets, wasn't enough.
The company had recently reduced the price to clone your pet from $50,000 to $32,000.
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The Laboratory of Reproductive Technology in Cremona, Italy have cloned 14 piglets, which were born several weeks ago.
This project was funded in part by the European Union to study stem cells in cloned animals.
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The Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species has cross-bred 2 adult wildcat clones producing
eight kittens in two litters in the last month, and appear to be healthy.
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Researchers at Seoul National University have developed the first dog clones. One of the puppies died
shortly after birth, but another Afghan hound is health after 16 weeks.
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Researchers at Cryozootech of Evry, France and LTR-CIX of Cremona, Italy have successfully cloned the second horse.
The clone was created from genetic material taken from a champion endurance horse named Pieraz. Pieraz was castrated
prior to the cloning and was unable to reproduce.
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Researchers in the US and Japan determined that meat and dairy products taken from 2 bulls and 4 dairy cows met
industry standards for human consumption. The cloned cattle were created using the process developed during
the cloning of "Dolly" the first animal clone.
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Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada have created five fruit fly clones.
Fruit flies often used as a model to study reproductive science may offer new insights into why cloning is
often flawed. Because fruit flies have a short gestation period they can be cloned, grown and tested in a
relatively short period of time.
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