All Articles Tagged As: cloning

Eggs and Sperm from Stem Cells on the Horizon (4/26/2008)

Scientists may be able to grow eggs and sperm, in part or in whole, from multipurpose stem cells within five to 15 years ...> Full Article

Is cloned meat safe to eat? (3/21/2008)

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. ...> Full Article

Cloned Human Embryo Created From Skin Cells (1/23/2008)

Stemagen, a privately held embryonic stem cell research company, announced January 17 it has become the first in the world to create, and meticulously document, a cloned human embryo using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). ...> Full Article

Study Reports Successful Cloning of Human Embryo Using Adult DNA (1/18/2008)

Key Step Toward Developing Embryonic Stem Cell Lines for Therapeutic Cloning ...> Full Article

Investment banker donates $20 million to fund Stanford's stem cell research, therapeutic efforts (1/16/2008)

Banker upset government won't fund scientific inquiries, decides to do it himself. ...> Full Article

Growing Artificial Skin From Hair Roots (1/5/2008)

There is new hope for patients with chronic wounds: euroderm GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI in Leipzig have been granted approval to produce artificial skin from patients' own cells. ...> Full Article

Canada's first cloned pigs born (12/8/2007)

Long-term cloning program will aid in research on treating human diseases ...> Full Article

South Korean Scientists Clone Grey Wolf (4/2/2007)

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

Cloning mice from skin stem cells (2/15/2007)

Scientists from Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time. ...> Full Article

US Food and Drug Administration endorses cloned food (1/8/2007)

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" ...> Full Article

Australia Lifts Ban on Cloning (12/6/2006)

The Australian House of Representatives approved legislation that lifts a previous ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research. ...> 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

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

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