Cloning And Stem Cell News, Research and Resources Archives Page 17

Gene Test for Macular Degeneration Created (10/20/2006)

Scientists at the John A. Moran Eye Center with the University of Utah have created a genetic test to determine whether a person is at risk of developing Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). ...> Full Article

Pet Cloning Company to Close (10/12/2006)

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. ...> Full Article

Pig to Human Organ Transplants in 5 years (10/11/2006)

Surgical Professor David Sachs has made long strides in xenotransplantation, the process of transplanting an organ from one species to another. Currently, Professor Sachs is testing pig kidneys in primates, with hopes of clinical trials on humans within 5 years. ...> Full Article

California To Spend $3 Billion On Stem Cell Research (10/11/2006)

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine issued its plan for how it would spend the $3 billion the state's voters assigned to finance stem cell research. ...> Full Article

Repairing Broken Hearts With Stem Cells (9/25/2006)

Dr. Andreas M. Zeiher is the chair of the Department of Medicine at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and senior author of a study that has infused stem cells onto a damaged hearts. The stem cells, harvested from the patients' own bone marrow, were then injected onto the heart in a single operation. The operation was performed on several patients who had suffered a heart attack months, years, and even decades before. ...> Full Article

Tranplanted Retinal Cells Help Blind Mice See (9/25/2006)

Researchers at Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Massachusetts have taken there stem cell technology to the next step by implanting its retinal cells into rats. ...> Full Article

Rejuvenating Heart Tissue (9/6/2006)

Phase one clinical trials for a procedure to rejuvenate damaged heart tissue have begun. ...> Full Article

Silk used to grow nerves (7/14/2006)

Researchers at Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry in London have developed a silk like fibre that can be used to grow nerve cells on. The silk, called Spidrex, comes from modified silk worms. The modified silk allows cells to bind to it easily. ...> Full Article

Cloned Knee Cartilage (7/5/2006)

Scientists led by Antony Hollander, ARC Professor of Rheumatology & Tissue Engineering at Bristol University in South West England have successfully grown and implanted knee cartilage into 23 patients. The process started by removing health cartilage from 23 patients. The cartilage is then grown for 14 days in a culture. The researchers then deposited the cartilage cells onto a esterified hyaluronic acid scaffold. They were grown on the scaffold for another 14 days. ...> Full Article

Beating-heart Transplant (6/5/2006)

Doctors at Papwork Hospital in Cambridge, UK have completed the first beating-heart transplant. The transplant was conducted 2 weeks ago, and the patient is in excellent condition. ...> Full Article

Printing New Tissues (4/14/2006)

Researchers at University of Missouri in Columbia, have demonstrated a new device that prints different types of tissues such as heart muscle onto biopaper. ...> Full Article

Retinal implants first step to eye replacement (4/6/2006)

Researchers are hoping to implant replacement rentina's into approximately 25 million patients suffering from retinal disease. Several of the early versions of the implants are nearly ready to be brought to market. One such implant is a wireless retinal prosthesis designed by the Boston Retinal Implant Project with is affiliated with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). ...> Full Article

Algae protein repairs degenerative sight problems (4/6/2006)

Scientists splice protein from green algae into mice eyes to help repair damage done from retinitis pigmentosa. Researchers from Wayne State University's School of Medicine used a virus to insert the green algae gene into genetically bred mice. The mice were bred to lose cones and rods, the light-sensitive tissues in the eyes, to simulate retinitis pigmentosa in humans. The gene controls the creation of a light-absorbing protein call ChR2. ...> Full Article

Wake Forest Physician Reports First Human Recipients of Laboratory-Grown Organs (4/3/2006)

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The first human recipients of laboratory-grown organs were reported today by Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. In The Lancet, Atala describes long-term success in children and teenagers who received bladders grown from their own cells. ...> Full Article

Creating Stem Cells from testes (4/3/2006)

US Researchers at PrimeGen Biotech have developed a method of transforming germ cells (found in the testes and ovaries) into stem cells in humans. Previously this method had only been performed on mice germ cells by Gerd Hasenfuss of Georg-August-University in Goettingen, Germany. ...> Full Article

Cloning Human Egg Donor Plan (2/15/2006)

The British Human Fertility and Embryology Authority is continuing a debate on the potential creation of a new policy to govern the practice of soliciting, collecting and researching unfertilized human embryo's. The latest meeting concluded with the committee requesting additional information they feel is needed in order to make a decision. ...> Full Article

Lab clones 14 pigs (10/28/2005)

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. ...> Full Article

Wildcat kittens produced by cross-breeding cloned adults (8/22/2005)

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. ...> Full Article

Scientists clone pet dog (8/3/2005)

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. ...> Full Article

Champion endurance horse cloned (4/14/2005)

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. ...> Full Article

Cloned cattle safe for human consumption (4/12/2005)

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. ...> Full Article

Human kidney cloned in rats (2/22/2005)

Researchers in Japan claim they've cloned a human kidney by harvesting human stem cells taken from adult bone marrow into rat embryos. ...> Full Article

Expert to clone embryos (2/8/2005)

Clone researcher, professor Ian Wilmut and the Kings College London scientists have been granted licence to clone human embyos for studying motor neurone disease. Professor Wilmut is responsible for creating the first animal clone "Dolly". ...> Full Article

Pet kitten cloned (12/23/2004)

Scientists at Genetic Savings and Clone, in California have successfully cloned the first commecially cloned pet kitten. The clone was created for a Texas woman known only as Julie to replace her previous cat who had died last year. The new kitten, named Little Nicky, is nine weekds old and appears to be in good shape. ...> Full Article

Fruit flies cloned (12/23/2004)

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. ...> Full Article

Stem Cells To Repair Eyes (9/26/2004)

Researchers at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts have coaxed stem cells into becoming retinal cells. They used stem cells taking from human embryos created by a team at Harvard University. Dr. Robert Lanza, Advanced Cell Technology’s scientific director and his team were intrigued when the cells began to cluster into small globes that looked like little eyes. The technology is still several years away, but can offer hope to those suffering from degenerative retinal problems. ...> Full Article

Growing new teeth (2/17/2004)

Professor Paul Sharpe, who is the director of the craniofacial department at the Dental Institue in King's College London says researchers can grow fully formed adult teeth in mice. The technique, similar to those used by Forsyth Institute researchers, uses the subjects own dental stem cells. The stem cells are then combined with embryonic epithelium, and are placed into the kidneys of the mice, which provide a good supply of blood and oxygen for the tooth to develop. The tooth is then removed from the kidney and is transplanted into the mouth. The tooth, which is still small, then grows into a normal tooth attaching to the underlying bone. ...> Full Article

Tissue Engineering Tooth Crowns (9/26/2002)

Researchers at The Forsyth Institute have successfully used tissue engineering techniques to regenerate mammalian tooth crowns containing dentin and enamel—a feat that could, one day, lead to a biological tooth substitute to replace lost or missing human teeth. The research also suggests the existence of dental stem cells—which could be key to bioengineering human teeth. ...> Full Article

Cloned kidney transplant in cattle (6/6/2002)

Researchers with Tissue Engineering at Children's Hospital Bostonwho transplanted cloned cattle cells that formed working mini-kidneys say their experiment shows the potential of cloning replacement tissues and organs. ...> Full Article