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2. Over the years, the international community has tried without success to build a consensus on an international convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings. (who.int)
3. Creating awareness among ministries of health in the African Region will provide them with critical and relevant information on the reproductive cloning of human beings and its implications to the health status of the general population. (who.int)
7. The WHO Regional Committee for Africa is invited to review this document for information and guidance concerning reproductive cloning of human beings. (who.int)
3. Media reports on nuclear transfer are usually about one form, reproductive nuclear transfer, also known as reproductive cloning of human beings . (who.int)
Elaboration of an international convention against reproductive cloning of human beings has been under consideration in the United Nations since December 2001 when the subject was included in the agenda of the fifty- sixth session as a supplementary agenda item at the request of France and Germany. (who.int)

WHA50.37 of 1997 argues that human cloning is ethically unacceptable and contrary to human integrity and morality. (who.int)
General Assembly the following year,3 and the World Medical Association's Resolution on Cloning, endorsed in 1997, have confronted the issue but lack binding legal force. (who.int)
After the birth of Dolly in 1996, the first successfully cloned mammal, excitement filled the scientific community and led to further investigation and development in the field of genetic engineering (Kolata, 1997). (umass.edu)
He stayed on to earn his Ph.D. in molecular biology at Cambridge, training under the legendary geneticist John Gurdon, whose breakthroughs in the 1950s and 1960s were key to the experiments performed by Ian Wilmut, a Gurdon student who cloned Dolly the sheep in 1997. (discovermagazine.com)

August 2003: Prometea (left), the world's first horse clone, and her mother Stella Cometa pose in the stable of the Laboratory of Reproductive Technology in Cremona, around 80 km from Milan in northern Italy. (cnn.com)
Yet Tomatillo, and a handful of others, represent near-exact replicas of sporting excellence and pose an important question: are we going to start seeing clones at the world's top equestrian events? (cnn.com)
She is the world's first cloned pet dog - created at a cost of more than £12million. (mirror.co.uk)
A section of one of the seagrass meadows that make up the world's largest clone. (livescience.com)
Scientists have discovered the world's biggest clone in Australia: A massive network of seagrass meadows that covers more than 77 square miles (200 square kilometers). (livescience.com)

Using tooth Pulp Cells ill SCNT increased the first cleavage rates compared with adult somatic Cells, leading to a higher rate of DNA reprogramming and increased production of an identical embryonic stem cells (ESCs) line. (yildiz.edu.tr)
Cloning + embryonic stem cells is a powerful combination. (kottke.org)
Embryonic stem cells can then be harvested from the cloned embryo and used to create new cells and organs for the original organism. (kottke.org)

Twelve years have passed since humans first successfully cloned a horse. (cnn.com)

Figure 1: Dog cloned by somatic-cell nuclear transfer. (nature.com)
a , Snuppy, the first cloned dog, at 67 days after birth (right), with the three-year-old male Afghan hound (left) whose somatic skin cells were used to clone him. (nature.com)
There are important problems in the therapeutic use of cloning which increase with the more advanced differentiation of somatic cells. (yildiz.edu.tr)
These Outcomes are promising for regenerative medicine ill the therapy of diabetes mellitus, and clarification of the importance of selecting appropriate adult somatic cells in deriving identical ESC lines is also a significant step. (yildiz.edu.tr)
It is also our view that there are no sound reasons for treating the early-stage human embryo or cloned human embryo as anything special, or as having moral status greater than human somatic cells in tissue culture. (wikiquote.org)
Indeed, if passed, Hatch/Feinstein/Kerry would explicitly legalize doing in humans the very cloning procedure -- somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) -- that was used to make Dolly the sheep . (lifeissues.net)

Researchers found the enormous clone while studying the genetic diversity of seagrasses in Shark Bay, a protected body of shallow water in Western Australia. (livescience.com)
No two stem cells are identical, even if they are genetic clones. (acm.org)
A clone is an organism that is a genetic copy of an existing one. (who.int)
2. Nuclear transfer is a technique used to duplicate genetic material by creating an embryo through the transfer and fusion of a diploid cell in an enucleated female oocyte.2 Cloning has a broader meaning than nuclear transfer as it also involves gene replication and natural or induced embryo splitting (see Annex 1). (who.int)
Most natural cloning occurs in those species that produce their descendants asexually, that is, without combining the male and female genetic material. (who.int)
However, an animal created through this technique would not be a precise genetic copy of the source of its nuclear DNA because each clone derives a small amount of its DNA from the mitochondria of the egg (which lie outside the nucleus) rather than from the donor of cell nucleus. (who.int)
In common usage, a clone is expected to be genetically identical to the genetic parent. (ideosphere.com)
But the claim wording does not explicitly require an identical clone, and it's possible that the first human clone will be genetically engineered--for example, to correct a genetic disease. (ideosphere.com)
And in any case, a designed person would be at least as technically difficult, at least as legally complex, and at least as controversial as an ordinary clone, so it would seem to satisfy the intent of the claim as long as the original nuclear genetic material came from one person. (ideosphere.com)
First is mobile genetic elements, and then they find their way onto these special or successful clones and then they tend to keep. (cdc.gov)
On the basis of the genetic relationship between the paired samples, three groups were delineated: (1) identical genetic changes at diagnosis and relapse (2 of 11 cases), (2) clonal evolution with all changes at diagnosis being present at relapse (2 of 11) and (3) clonal evolution with some changes conserved, lost or gained (7 of 11), suggesting the presence of a preleukemic clone. (lu.se)

Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments ( molecular cloning ), cells (cell cloning), or organisms . (wikiquote.org)
Molecular cloning of DNA was used to investigate the expression of type b capsule and its association with H. influenzae virulence. (jci.org)
To our knowledge, this is the first report on the molecular cloning of an oxytocin/vasopressin-like receptor and its ligand from arthropods. (lu.se)

Developments in biotechnology have raised new concerns about animal welfare, as farm animals now have their genomes modified (genetically engineered) or copied (cloned) to propagate certain traits useful to agribusiness, such as meat yield or feed conversion. (wikiquote.org)
Lou, 53, is the forefather of cloning yet, after two decades and 20 other genetically engineered pooches, he has turned his back on the industry, sickened over the suffering it causes thousands of dogs each year. (mirror.co.uk)

If the isolates are obtained from the same hosts (humans) who contracted the disease at the same time and at the same place, these isolates appeared belonging to the same clone. (cdc.gov)

The foal on the right, seen in 2005, was the first to be cloned in North America under the guidance of Dr Katrin Hinrichs, of Texas A&M University. (cnn.com)

Division, tissue culture and grafting all produce identical plants through asexual reproduction. (americanpeonysociety.org)
Asexual propagation produces clones, and, consequently, all new plants will resemble the parent plant, a benefit for growers who want to multiply and sell a unique plant. (encyclopedia.com)
Scientists have made some major achievements with cloning, including the asexual reproduction of sheep and cows. (listverse.com)

Therapeutic Use of Cloning: Osmangazi Tu. (yildiz.edu.tr)
5. In 2001, France and Germany requested the United Nations General Assembly to develop international conventions on human reproductive cloning, therapeutic cloning and research on stem cells. (who.int)

General Assembly the adoption of a declaration on human cloning by which Member States were called upon to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life. (who.int)
It's given name is the "Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2003," the stated purpose of which, supposedly, is to "prohibit human cloning and to protect important areas of medical research, including stem cell research. (lifeissues.net)
Some prohibit only cloning for reproductive purposes and allow the creation of cloned human embryos for research, whereas others prohibit the creation of cloned embryos for any purpose. (who.int)

In biology , cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria , insects or plants reproduce asexually . (wikiquote.org)
Asexually propagated clones may all be vulnerable to the attackers, which could wipe out the crop. (encyclopedia.com)
Although many species produce clonal offspring in this fashion, Dolly, the lamb born in 1996 at a research institute in Scotland, was the first asexually produced mammalian clone. (who.int)
Definition: The definition of clone, as used in this claim, is "asexually produced progeny. (ideosphere.com)

In sexual reproduction, clones are created when a fertilized egg splits to produce identical (monozygous) twins with identical genomes. (who.int)

Comment: Indeed, if passed, "total cloning bans" H.R. 534, H.R. 234, H.R. 916, and S. 245 would not ban anything either - not even the SCNT cloning technique that was used to make Dolly the sheep. (lifeissues.net)

A 4.4-kb EcoRI fragment, common to both DNA clones, was used to characterize clinical isolates representing all six encapsulated serotypes as well as several capsule-deficient H. influenzae by Southern hybridization analysis. (jci.org)
Lyme disease is a multisystem infection, with infl am- tinents, and isolates of this clone were uniform in DNA se- matory complications that commonly affect the skin, joints, quences, which suggests a recent trans-oceanic migration. (cdc.gov)

Background: Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland have created the first clone of an adult mammal, a sheep. (ideosphere.com)

A high-speed cloning setup cranks out copies of a reference image for the target PC on individual drives that, when inserted into a PC, are ready to be turned on and run for their new owners. (computerworld.com)
The main difference between disk imaging and disk cloning is that disk imaging creates an image file, while disk cloning copies all data directly to another disk. (easeus.com)

These cells were named Osmangazi Turk Identical ESCs since this was the first use in SCNT of tooth pulp cells to demonstrate a decrease in glucose levels following administration of these cells. (yildiz.edu.tr)

Given that we have an efficiency of 1% cloning for livestock species and if only one in a thousand cells are viable then around 100,000 cells would need to be transferred. (wikiquote.org)
Cloning, the process of producing a genetically identical individual using the DNA of another individual, has been used over the past decade to revive extinct species. (umass.edu)
In order to accomplish this, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and private organizations should provide funds for cloning-based conservation programs to repopulate endangered species that cannot be saved through traditional conservation methods. (umass.edu)

The A and B clones of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stric- maintenance of these clonal complexes in natural bacterial to, distinguished by outer surface protein C ( ospC ) gene populations ( 3 , 4 ). (cdc.gov)

The researchers found that the P. australis clone was expanding through a process known as "horizontal rhizome extension," in which a plant creates a genetically identical offshoot via an underground stem, or rhizome, which then develops its own roots and stem. (livescience.com)
Cloning one drive to an identical device creates an easy, drop-in replacement for the original if it becomes damaged, corrupted, or otherwise unusable. (computerworld.com)
CS-Cart Order Clone creates the same orders with distinct IDs. (webkul.com)

The House of Representatives has re-passed its comprehensive ban on human cloning. (reason.com)
Human self-reactive T cell clones expressing identical T cell receptor beta chains differ in their ability to recognize a cryptic self-epitope. (ox.ac.uk)
We have studied five human in vivo activated T cell clones specific for the region 535-551 of human thyroid peroxidase (TPO) established from a Graves' patient. (ox.ac.uk)
differentiated from human reproductive cloning. (nsf.gov)
Claims that you could clone individual treatments of human beings to treat common diseases like diabetes, suggests you need a huge supply of human eggs. (wikiquote.org)
A blastocyst (cloned or not), because it lacks any trace of a nervous system, has no capacity for suffering or conscious experience in any form - the special properties that, in our view, spell the difference between biological tissue and a human life worthy of respect and rights. (wikiquote.org)
Human cloning is more viable, he said, adding: "Unlike the dog industry, no human would die. (mirror.co.uk)
WHA50.37, which states "the use of cloning for the replication of human individuals is ethically unacceptable and contrary to human integrity and morality. (who.int)
Comment: If by "waffling" Kettle means that one knowingly supports a fake ban on human cloning (see conclusion of article), then there is a whole lot of waffling going on - on both sides of the aisles. (lifeissues.net)
article: Now, he's done it again by signing up as a co-sponsor (along with Senators Orin Hatch and Dianne Feinstein) of what could be called the Human Cloning Legalization and Legitimization Act of 2003 (S. 303) . (lifeissues.net)
The cloning "bans" being supported in his article could likewise be called "the Human Cloning Legalization and Legitimazation Acts of 2003" (e.g. (lifeissues.net)
article: But, S. 303 does not outlaw the act of human cloning at all . (lifeissues.net)
To date, some 35 countries have adopted laws forbidding human cloning. (who.int)
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. (theblackvault.com)
This claim will be judged YES if a clone of an adult (16 years or older) human is created and lives to one year of age. (ideosphere.com)
On the other hand, a clone engineered to be less than human (for example a headless clone to grow new organs) would present smaller legal and ethical problems than an exact clone. (ideosphere.com)

Analysis of eight canine-specific microsatellite loci confirmed that the cloned dogs were genetically identical to their donor dog. (nature.com)

Snuppy is genetically identical to the donor Afghan hound. (nature.com)
We tested whether the cloned dogs were genetically identical by microsatellite analysis of genomic DNA from the donor Afghan, the cloned dogs and the surrogates (see supplementary information ). (nature.com)
Thus, the clone would be genetically identical to the nucleus donor only if the egg came from the same donor or from her maternal line. (who.int)
The experiment resulted in the birth of a Bucardo that was genetically identical to the donor cell. (umass.edu)

A fully intact ET corpse from South America, featured in the upcoming SIRIUS documentary, is nearly identical to another mummified body found in Russia in 1996. (divinecosmos.com)

More than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce viable offspring. (wikiquote.org)
More than 100 nuclear transfer procedures could be required to produce one viable clone. (wikiquote.org)

Without explicitly stating that they were Apple II clones, many had fruit-related names. (wikipedia.org)

This Iranian wild sheep was cloned using the same method as Folch et al. (umass.edu)

Another similar attempt was performed in 2011 when scientists from the Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine cloned the near-extinct Esfahan Mouflon. (umass.edu)

Using a well-characterized rat model of H. influenzae systemic infection, we showed that type b transformants elicited by the cloned DNA were pathogenic, causing bacteremia and meningitis, whereas the untransformed capsule-deficient H. influenzae organisms were not. (jci.org)

He believes cloning is not "the future" of breeding, but one option that helps to preserve the most successful genes. (cnn.com)
Now, interestingly enough is these genes (these antimicrobial resistant genes), they can find their way onto certain clones. (cdc.gov)
And these clones, when the genes reach them, they act as hoarders and spreaders of these antimicrobial genes. (cdc.gov)

Seagrass plants can fragment over time if there is damage or disturbance, but the fragments are still genetically identical," she added. (livescience.com)

Further analysis revealed that unlike the other seagrasses in the area, which reproduce sexually, P. australis is actually cloning itself through an underground network of branching roots. (livescience.com)

The arrival of these clones caused a huge ethical and scientific row. (mirror.co.uk)

Here we describe the cloning of two Afghan hounds by nuclear transfer from adult skin cells into oocytes that had matured in vivo . (nature.com)
We have shown that thyroid epithelial cells (TEC), the only cells that produce TPO, express HLA class II molecules in Graves' disease and can act as an antigen-presenting cells, presenting TPO after endogenous processing to autoantigen-reactive T cell clones. (ox.ac.uk)
T cell clone 37 recognizes the TEC, whereas it is stimulated poorly by the TPO loaded to autologous peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). (ox.ac.uk)
Cloning takes "old cells" back in time, creating identical young cells. (kottke.org)
We cloned the Tribolium inotocin preprohormone and the inotocin GPCR and expressed the GPCR in CHO cells. (lu.se)
The resulting group of genetically identical cells (called a clone) produces a large quantity. (msdmanuals.com)

I don't see the point of having identical processes. (zendesk.com)
1. Cloning is an umbrella term traditionally used to describe different processes for duplicating biological material. (who.int)

In addition to low success rates, cloned animals tend to have more compromised immune function and higher rates of infection, tumor growth, and other disorders. (wikiquote.org)

However, no similar peptide could be identified in other insects, nor could its prohormone be cloned, or its physiological actions be established. (lu.se)

This indicates that the "restricted" TCR V region usage sometimes found in autoimmune diseases may not always correspond to identical epitope recognition. (ox.ac.uk)
Prevent errors and dissimilarities by ensuring that cloned orders correspond to the details of the original order. (webkul.com)

Three clones (37, 72, and 73) expressed identical TCR beta and alpha chains rearranging V beta 1.1 and V alpha 15.1, and were considered sister clones. (ox.ac.uk)
Fine epitope mapping using nested peptides showed that clones using identical TCR beta chains, identical V alpha, but a different J alpha recognized distinct, nonoverlapping epitopes in the TPO 535-551 region. (ox.ac.uk)
two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains connected by disulfide bonds . (wikipedia.org)

The present report gives an overview of the terms and methods used in cloning and summarizes the debates in the General Assembly. (who.int)

While I have to agree with the author's concerns (we'll call him Kettle) about the use of waffling and fake science in the supposed cloning "bans" proposed by the Pots, if truth be told, there's enough concern to go around for both the Pots and the Kettles. (lifeissues.net)
Beyond this scientific interest, the commercial concern in animal cloning focuses on replicating large numbers of genetically identical animals, especially those derived from a progenitor that has been modified genetically. (who.int)

So, tell us a little bit more about really what a successful bacteria clone is. (cdc.gov)

Clone X is specially designed to create a copy of your system, to duplicate it on other disks or computers, and to repair and reinstall the system in case of problems (damaged system, errors during installation, etc. (macupdate.com)
The clone is compressed to save disk space, and you can create as many clones as you need. (macupdate.com)
Her looks and temperament were almost a 100% match to her DNA mum which led Lou to create four more clones, including MissyToo six months later. (mirror.co.uk)
Up to 80 are used to create one clone. (mirror.co.uk)
We can use this process to clone the last male White rhino to create a male that would successfully mate with the remaining females, and thus resolve the captive breeding issue. (umass.edu)
Thus, the overall process I'll cover in this story is to create an image of the drive to be cloned, and then restore that image to a different drive. (computerworld.com)
CS-Cart Order Clone extension facilitates the duplication of orders to create new ones. (webkul.com)
CS-Cart Order Clone removes the requirement for manually re-entering order details and allows you to create new orders based on existing ones. (webkul.com)

As each of the cell progeny divides, the new pattern lives on in each new clone. (cdc.gov)

Relapsed childhood high hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia: presence of preleukemic ancestral clones and the secondary nature of microdeletions and RTK-RAS mutations. (lu.se)

With the copy of your original system realized by Clone X, you can install a similar system on other disks or other computers, preserving your own configuration and settings. (macupdate.com)
The older nomenclature persists in terms like "disk image," and you may see drive cloning software refer to all storage devices as "disks," even if they're SSDs. (computerworld.com)
Apart from backing up data, disk cloning is also used to upgrade disks. (easeus.com)

A clone of a previous order has to be generated but with a distinct order ID that differs from the original. (webkul.com)

Identical twins are natural clones. (amnh.org)
The next step after cloning an animal would be its reintroduction to its natural habitat. (umass.edu)

An InnoDB Cluster that uses MySQL Clone provides the following additional behavior. (mysql.com)
A cluster using MySQL Clone follows the behavior documented at Section 7.4.4, "Adding Instances to an InnoDB Cluster" , with the addition of a possible choice of how to transfer the data required to recover the instance from the cluster. (mysql.com)

She believes cloning will come to be much more widely accepted. (cnn.com)
The freeware version of this well-known and widely used partition and disk management tool won't clone drives. (computerworld.com)

In this case a metadata entry is added for this configuration and the MySQL Clone plugin is uninstalled if it is installed. (mysql.com)
Man's best friend is a dog but, when it came to cloning, it isn't the case. (mirror.co.uk)
In fact, it's often the case when a boot/system disk is being cloned that the source is an HD and the target an SSD because of the improved performance that such a changeover invariably delivers. (computerworld.com)

When she compared tumors from multiple animals, she found they were genetically identical. (popsci.com)
Science and technology has advanced to the point that we can now clone animals. (umass.edu)

citation needed] Another European Apple II clone was the Pearcom Pear II, which was larger than the original as it sported not eight but fourteen expansion slots. (wikipedia.org)
That means that modifying attributes of the clone will modify the original, since they will both point to the same attributes hash. (rubyonrails.org)
Cloning a PC drive comes in handy for a variety of reasons, but primarily when you want to replace one drive on a PC with another that is either bigger or faster than the original drive, if not both. (computerworld.com)
Ensures a clear distinction between the original and cloned order while seamlessly blending into the order history . (webkul.com)
Every cloned order gets a unique order ID, creating a distinction between the original and cloned orders while seamlessly integrating them into the order history. (webkul.com)

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