Dolly Scientists' Human Clone Bid
The scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep have formally applied for a licence to clone human embryos to find a cure for motor neurone disease. If granted, Professor Ian Wilmut's team at Edinburgh's...
View ArticleScientific American Magazine Stem Cell Panel Highlights Divisions Over...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A vigorous debate yesterday among leading research and policy players presented by Scientific American magazine highlighted the connection between the controversies...
View ArticleHarvard Seeks Permission To Clone Human Embryos
Harvard University researchers said on Wednesday they were seeking permission to use cloning technology to make human stem cells. They plan to use technology similar to that used by South Korean...
View ArticleBiotech Cats Wouldn't Affect Allergies; Company Strives To Create Genetically...
The biotechnology revolution is shaking up the pet world. First came a cloned cat. Then came the fish genetically engineered to glow. Now, a Los Angeles company is exploiting the latest in...
View ArticleHair Cloning Nears Reality As Baldness Cure
Balding men and women take note. Hair cloning -- the next hair restoration remedy -- is on the way.OK, it's not exactly cloning, although that's what it's come to be called. Researchers working to...
View Article{1} Release: Army-Funded Effort Examines Androgen's Role In Bone Loss
PORTLAND, Ore. - An extensive, Oregon Health & Science University-led research effort examining the role of the male sex hormone androgen in bone formation has piqued the interest of the United...
View ArticleCloned Gene From Sea Animal May Prove Key In Cancer Drug Development
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and their colleagues have taken a significant step forward in developing a new method to produce drug...
View Article"Dolly" Scientists May Clone Human Embryos
The creators of Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult, want to create cloned human embryos for stem cell research, one of the scientists said Wednesday. The Roslin Institute,...
View Article50,000 Worth Of Cute? Cloned Cats Go On Sale
Just in time for that last-minute holiday gift, a bioscience firm has announced the first sale of a cloned kitten, a male named "Little Nicky." Genetics Savings & Clone (GSC) of Sausalito, Calif.,...
View Article2004: The Year In Biology And Medicine
Fears of a global flu pandemic, the inexorable spread of AIDS and the pervasiveness of tuberculosis were some of the threats which marked out 2004. But the year saw landmark advances too, with the...
View Article{1}'s Virtual Clones To Predict Therapy Outcome For Breast Cancer
RAMAT GAN & BEER SHEVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2005--Optimata Ltd. and the Soroka University Medical Center announced today the launch of a validation study for the treatment of breast...
View ArticleDolly Scientist Gets Human Cloning License
The British government Tuesday gave the creator of Dolly the Sheep a license to clone human embryos for medical research into the cause of motor neuron disease. Ian Wilmut, who led the team that...
View ArticleRessourcenzentrum Fur Genomforschung To Distribute GeneCopoeia's...
GERMANTOWN, Md., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneCopoeia, Inc. and Deutsches Ressourcenzentrum fur Genomforschung GmbH (RZPD) announced today that they entered into a partnership to distribute GeneCopoeia's...
View ArticleCloning Scientist Hwang Receives Honorary Doctorate
Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo-suk on Tuesday received an honorary doctorate from Pochon CHA University College of Medicine.The university conferred the honorary Ph.D. to Hwang in...
View ArticleNo Problems With Meat, Milk From Cloned Animals
Meat and milk from cloned animals is essentially identical to that from animals that reproduced normally, a new study says. The findings should ease safety concerns by both the public and regulators...
View ArticleChampion Endurance Horse Cloned
The birth of the world's second horse clone has been announced by scientists. The foal is a copy of a world endurance champion, Pieraz, an animal that has been castrated and was therefore incapable of...
View ArticleMassachusetts Lawmakers Reject Stem Cell Ban
Lawmakers Thursday rejected Gov. Mitt Romney's amendments to a stem cell research bill including a proposed ban on using cloned embryos for the purpose of obtaining stem cells to use in treating...
View ArticleHuman Embryo Cloned For First Time In Britain
A human embryo has been cloned for the first time in Britain, where such work is strictly regulated, scientists announced. Scientists at Newcastle University, the first in Britain to obtain a licence...
View ArticleScientists Speed Creation Of Stem Cells; South Korean Team Claims Cloning...
South Korean scientists have dramatically sped up the creation of human embryonic stem cells, growing 11 new batches that for the first time were a genetic match for injured or sick patients. It is a...
View ArticleDolly Creator To Ask Women To Donate Eggs
The scientist who cloned Dolly the Sheep is to ask Scottish women volunteers to donate their eggs for stem cell research. Professor Ian Wilmut, from the Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Midlothian, said...
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