• Sir Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, has died at 79. (yahoo.com)
  • Dolly's successful birth in 1996 marked the first time a mammal was successfully cloned from an adult cell. (yahoo.com)
  • Dolly the sheep made headlines way back in 1996, only three years after Jurassic Park hit theaters, when she became the first successfully cloned mammal. (syfy.com)
  • But it was the successful cloning of Dolly the Sheep in 1996 that made waves around the world for she was the first mammal to be created using the procedure. (nyln.org)
  • Professor Sir Ian Wilmut was part of a team at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh which successfully cloned Dolly in 1996. (stv.tv)
  • 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)
  • At the Roslin Institute in Scotland, scientists successfully cloned an exact copy of a sheep, named 'Dolly', in July 1996. (biologyonline.com)
  • The first mammal to ever be successfully cloned was Dolly the sheep in 1996. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • It became a hot topic in 1996 when Dolly the sheep was cloned via a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer. (archstl.org)
  • A year before Dolly, he successfully cloned two lambs (Megan and Morag) whose cells were taken from sheep embryos.University of EdinburghDolly's successful birth in 1996 marked the first time a mammal was successfully cloned from an adult cell. (sp1ndex.com)
  • She was born on 5 July 1996 and died from a progressive lung disease five months before her seventh birthday (the disease was not considered related to her being a clone) on 14 February 2003. (pooginook.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)
  • In 1972, he became the first scientist to successfully freeze, thaw and transfer a calf embryo, which he called "Frostie," to a surrogate mother. (yahoo.com)
  • But there was no way to easily know all the characteristics of the animal that would result from a cloned embryo or fetus. (wptv.com)
  • 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)
  • Other policy options, such as supposed compromises that would prohibit "reproductive cloning" but permit "therapeutic cloning" by prohibiting not the act of creating a cloned embryo but the act of transferring a cloned embryo to a woman's uterus, would inherently mandate the wide-scale destruction of human embryos. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Losses of the cloned animals may be due to a variety of reasons: failure during implantation of the embryo, embryonic death in general, or the possible development of a defective placenta. (punnettssquare.com)
  • Hopefully researchers will be able to use this find to uncover more developmental issues of the cloned embryo, and eventually lead to a higher survival rate. (punnettssquare.com)
  • That's why Father Pacholczyk, director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, said that the efforts to help people understand the immorality of embryo reserch, including human cloning, must focus on humanizing the issue and appreciating our own embryonic origins, not just on the desired results of embryonic or other types of stem-cell research. (archstl.org)
  • In 1972, he became the first scientist to successfully freeze, thaw and transfer a calf embryo, which he called "Frostie," to a surrogate mother.Wilmut's work at The Roslin Institute in Edinburgh continued to push the boundaries of animal genetics. (sp1ndex.com)
  • Monozy-gotic identical twins are also clones as they are formed by split up of the early 2 or more celled embryo into two equal parts. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • If all of these steps are successfully completed, the embryo will then be transplanted into the womb of a female African elephant by Professor Minoru Miyashita of Kinki University and two U.S. African elephant researchers. (worldnewscenter.org)
  • If a cloned embryo can be created, we need to discuss, before transplanting it into the womb, how to breed and whether to display it to the public," Iritani told the Yomiuri Shinbun, "After the mammoth is born, we'll examine its ecology and genes to study why the species became extinct and other factors. (worldnewscenter.org)
  • That honour belongs to another sheep which was cloned from an embryo cell and born in 1984 in Cambridge, UK. (pooginook.com)
  • In 1998, scientists in South Korea claimed to have successfully cloned a human embryo, but said the experiment was interrupted very early when the clone was just a group of four cells. (pooginook.com)
  • Ever since cloning produced Dolly the sheep , scientists have copied a slew of mammals ranging from dogs to ponies. (engadget.com)
  • A year before Dolly, he successfully cloned two lambs (Megan and Morag) whose cells were taken from sheep embryos. (yahoo.com)
  • Specifically, many wondered: If they're doing sheep now, how long until they clone humans? (yahoo.com)
  • concept of animal cloning, which has now been successfully carried out with sheep and a number of other mammals. (brandeis.edu)
  • It's been 20 years since scientists in Scotland told the world about Dolly the sheep , the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult body cell. (wptv.com)
  • Dolly was an exact genetic copy of that sheep - a clone. (wptv.com)
  • She lived to six and a half years, when she was eventually put down after a contagious disease spread through her flock, infecting cloned and normally reproduced sheep alike. (wptv.com)
  • Tributes have been paid to the scientist who led the team which cloned Dolly the sheep 27 years ago after he died at the age of 79. (stv.tv)
  • Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, but not the first ever sheep to be cloned. (stv.tv)
  • He was a titan of the scientific world, leading the Roslin Institute team who cloned Dolly the sheep - the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell - which transformed scientific thinking at the time. (stv.tv)
  • This Iranian wild sheep was cloned using the same method as Folch et al. (umass.edu)
  • Scientists in China successfully cloned two healthy monkeys using the same method which produced Dolly the sheep. (newsinlevels.com)
  • Gene Expression Pinpoints Multiple Anomalies Likely to Lead to Pregnancy Failure for Clones It has been 20 years since Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in Scotland, but cloning mammals. (ucdavis.edu)
  • When the world learned in 1997 of Dolly the sheep, the first clone produced from an adult mammal, a broad public discussion about the ethics of human cloning ensued, largely focused on the nature, meaning, and future of human procreation. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • however, it was just twenty years ago that Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned. (punnettssquare.com)
  • 1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. (scottwintersblog.com)
  • When Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, was born almost a quarter century ago, it was a breakthrough. (vuzv.cz)
  • Then in '97 the paper by Ian Wilmut came out on the cloning of Dolly the sheep. (rupress.org)
  • Sheep Dolly is a clone of its mother. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • Quick Answer: What Year Was Dolly The Sheep Cloned? (pooginook.com)
  • How old was Dolly the cloned sheep when she died? (pooginook.com)
  • How much did it cost to clone Dolly the sheep? (pooginook.com)
  • Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, died on 14 February. (pooginook.com)
  • What happened to Dolly the sheep clone? (pooginook.com)
  • What animals have been cloned since Dolly the sheep? (pooginook.com)
  • Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. (bridgemanimages.com)
  • Even while clones are genetically identical, their phenotypes - the characteristics they express - will be different. (wptv.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Analysis of eight canine-specific microsatellite loci confirmed that the cloned dogs were genetically identical to their donor dog. (nature.com)
  • Cloning is the production of living struc-tures genetically identical to their parent struc-ture. (yourarticlelibrary.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)
  • 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)
  • Polly, born in 1997, was the first genetically modified cloned mammal. (yahoo.com)
  • 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)
  • Dolly was the culmination of hundreds of cloning experiments that, for example, showed diploid embryonic and fetal cells could be parents of offspring. (wptv.com)
  • However, following the successful derivation of human embryonic stem cells in 1998, the debate over human cloning largely shifted to the question of whether it is acceptable for scientists to create human embryos only to destroy them. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Researchers were able to find anomalies in expression of more than five thousand genes looking at the extra embryonic tissue of those of the cloned cows by day 18. (punnettssquare.com)
  • Embryonic cells can now be cloned. (biologyonline.com)
  • A decade later, cloning came to the forefront in Missouri with the narrow passage of Amendment 2, a ballot initiative in 2006 that constitutionally protects embryonic stem-cell research and human cloning. (archstl.org)
  • Gurdon's research built on the work of Thomas King and Robert Briggs in the United States, who in 1952 published findings that indicated that scientists could take a nucleus from an early embryonic cell and successfully transfer it into an unfertilized and enucleated egg cell. (asu.edu)
  • As such, monkey cloning may be limited to medical research, where having more than one monkey with the same genes could help scientists compare the results of treatments or test under specific conditions. (engadget.com)
  • Dolly was an important milestone, inspiring scientists to continue improving cloning technology as well as to pursue new concepts in stem cell research. (wptv.com)
  • As mentioned earlier, scientists were able to clone an extinct animal, the Pyrenean ibex. (nyln.org)
  • Scientists named Dolly after singer Dolly Parton, because she was cloned using a cell from the mammary gland of a six-year-old Dorset Finn ewe, and she was kept a secret for the first months of her life. (stv.tv)
  • Another similar attempt was performed in 2011 when scientists from the Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine cloned the near-extinct Esfahan Mouflon. (umass.edu)
  • Scientists say that they want to clone monkeys for medical research to study Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. (newsinlevels.com)
  • But cloning research continued, and American scientists announced in 2013 that they had for the first time successfully obtained stem cells from cloned human embryos. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Scientists used RNA sequencing in order to look at gene expression in cows that had been cloned during implantation and attempt to understand the molecular mechanisms that lead to such a high rate of failure during pregnancy. (punnettssquare.com)
  • Scientists successfully manipulated the genetic sequence of a rat to grow a human ear on its back. (biologyonline.com)
  • Today, cloning is used to produce police dogs, racehorses and, more recently, even pets, although it is a very controversial topic and many scientists clearly reject cloning. (vuzv.cz)
  • á belongs to a small group of world´s leading scientists who have successfully cloned mice. (vuzv.cz)
  • This is not the first time scientists have dreamed Jurassic Park-esque fantasies-previous attempts to clone the woolly mammoth failed in the 1990's, mainly because soft tissue extracted from the ice had been, well, frozen for over 5,000 years (and so the DNA was damaged). (worldnewscenter.org)
  • The good news (I think) is that even if Iritani and his scientists manage to clone a mammoth that then grows to be 13 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh 8,000 pounds, it'll still be smaller than an adult male African elephant (which can grow to be about 13 feet at the shoulder and weigh up to 13,000 pounds). (worldnewscenter.org)
  • Reproductive cloning is a process that has been around for a long time. (nyln.org)
  • What happens in reproductive cloning is that a duplicate copy of another organism is made. (nyln.org)
  • However, with reproductive cloning, same-sex couples no longer have to seek such methods because they can have a child that is truly their own. (nyln.org)
  • Reproductive cloning is expensive and highly inefficient. (wikiquote.org)
  • Cloning-to-produce-children could also be used to attempt to control the physical and even psychological traits of children, extending the eugenic logic of those who would use reproductive biotechnology to have the perfect child. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Under the AHR Act, it is illegal to knowingly create a human clone, regardless of the purpose, including therapeutic and reproductive cloning. (pooginook.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Wilmut moved to the University of Edinburgh the following decade, focusing on using cloning to make stem cells for regenerative medicine. (yahoo.com)
  • Prof Wilmut hoped cloning would mean no species became extinct - but Dolly also helped to pioneer stem cell research. (stv.tv)
  • Although the latest scientific work related to cloning has been focused on potential medical applications, much of that research is relevant to the creation of cloned children. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • The Threat of Human Cloning concludes by calling for laws prohibiting both human cloning and the creation of embryos for research. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer was originally how Dolly was cloned, or rather when a nucleus from an adult cell is transferred into unfertilized egg that has had its nucleus removed, and then begins cell growth by an electric shock. (punnettssquare.com)
  • She was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. (scottwintersblog.com)
  • Dolly was important because she was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. (pooginook.com)
  • At just 31 years old, Hochedlinger has already worked on therapeutic cloning in a mouse model ( 2 ), reprogramming cancer nuclei ( 3 ), and the molecular mechanisms controlling stem cell pluripotency ( 4 ). (rupress.org)
  • The monkeys are the first cloned primates , and this is an important moment because primates are more similar to humans. (newsinlevels.com)
  • This has been researched, studied, and successfully done with the use of animals, many people believe the next step is humans. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • The entire world would be changed if we began to clone humans, in some ways for the better, but in others it would be much worse. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • Once the process of cloning humans is perfected and becomes a common practice, many other worlds of medical research would be expanded. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • The company CLONAID, claims to have successfully cloned humans. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma bugs, and 43 (96%) of the 45 detected blood meals were cruzi , is mainly transmitted to humans and other mam- successfully cloned (online Technical Appendix Table). (cdc.gov)
  • is concern that vectorial transmission to humans in the Unit- the maximum number of blood meal sources was 4 (online ed States may increase because of the following factors: Technical Appendix Table), confirming the ability of the 1) loss of sylvan blood sources because of habitat destruc- cloning approach to identify multiple blood meals. (cdc.gov)
  • Can humans clone? (pooginook.com)
  • Ever since, a number of mammals have been cloned - cows, pigs, cats and rhesus monkeys. (nyln.org)
  • They also used cows that were not cloned, conceived using the process of artificial insemination. (punnettssquare.com)
  • In theory, this makes human cloning more realistic given the genetic similarities between monkeys and our own species. (engadget.com)
  • I've been working with mammalian embryos for over 40 years, with some work in my lab specifically focusing on various methods of cloning cattle and other livestock species. (wptv.com)
  • To date, more than 20 species have been cloned , with 19 of them surviving into adulthood. (syfy.com)
  • While the practice has been successful on certain mammals, it is still a hotly debated topic in terms of the human species. (nyln.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Most natural cloning occurs in those species that produce their descendants asexually, that is, without combining the male and female genetic material. (who.int)
  • In fact, one of the coauthors of the paper announcing Dolly worked in our laboratory for three years prior to going to Scotland to help create the famous clone. (wptv.com)
  • Thus, one could know the characteristics of the animal being cloned. (wptv.com)
  • The technique involves removing the nucleus of an egg cell and replacing it with a somatic (body) cell from the animal you want to clone. (syfy.com)
  • The book is separated into three chapters covering biotechnology, animal cloning and human cloning. (progress.org.uk)
  • Even an extinct animal, the Pyrenean ibex, was successfully cloned in 2009. (nyln.org)
  • Concerns have been raised even in animals as doubters worry about the implications of using a cloned animal in the food supply. (nyln.org)
  • 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)
  • The next step after cloning an animal would be its reintroduction to its natural habitat. (umass.edu)
  • mammal (an animal whose babies drink their mother's milk and have fur and warm blood), primate (a mammal like a monkey or human), research (doing science). (newsinlevels.com)
  • Out of all of the animal testing on cloning that has been conducting, only about 3 percent have been successful. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • I asked whether a terminally differentiated cell is still amenable to reprogramming and able to give rise to a cloned animal. (rupress.org)
  • Cloning is of several types-cell cloning, gene cloning, microbial cloning, plant cloning and animal cloning. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • 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)
  • Chinese researchers have successfully cloned a macaque monkey fetus twice, producing sister monkeys Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong using the same basic method used to create Dolly. (engadget.com)
  • By Lisa Howard June 21, 2017 What if researchers could go back in time 105 million years and accurately sequence the chromosomes of the first placental mammal? (ucdavis.edu)
  • Researchers, and naturally they're from Japan, have announced that they have come up with a viable way to clone a woolly mammoth. (worldnewscenter.org)
  • These days most cloning is done using cells obtained by biopsying skin. (wptv.com)
  • DNA in the cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas would normally contain that base sequence since the islets are the regions in which insulin is produced in mammals. (faqs.org)
  • Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments ( molecular cloning ), cells (cell cloning), or organisms . (wikiquote.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The subsequent discovery of promising alternative techniques for generating stem cells without creating or destroying embryos seemed to show that scientific progress would obviate the demand for cloning. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • This kind of cloning is today being performed at several scientific labs in the United States, despite the availability of alternative techniques that produce cells of nearly the same scientific and medical value but that require neither the creation nor destruction of human embryos. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Cells are also cloned in the laboratory for research purposes. (biologyonline.com)
  • It was thought that mammalian cells might be refractory to cloning. (rupress.org)
  • They used adult cells, but it was possible that the cells that gave rise to successfully cloned animals were derived from rare adult stem cells. (rupress.org)
  • Cells of a clone are identical genetically, morphologically and physiologically. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • With the help of micropipette, single cells are added to fresh culture media for multiplication and formation of cell clones. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • A Japanese scientist suggests that he may be able to clone a woolly mammoth using frozen mammoth cells within the next five years. (worldnewscenter.org)
  • Wakayama's technique was successfully implemented in cloning a mouse from the cells of a mouse that had been frozen for 16 years. (worldnewscenter.org)
  • Sir John Bertrand Gurdon further developed nuclear transplantation, the technique used to clone organisms and to create stem cells, while working in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. (asu.edu)
  • 1869: Friedrich Miescher have successfully isolated the "nuclein" inside the nuclei of human white blood cells[4]. (panaderiatroyano.com)
  • More than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce viable offspring. (wikiquote.org)
  • A recent study conducted at the University of California showed a cow gene that demonstrated why most clones fail. (punnettssquare.com)
  • By use of RNA sequencing, multiple genes were found to be expressed abnormally, that could potentially lead to the high mortality rate of cloned embryos, as well as their failure to be implanted in the uterus and to develop a normal placenta. (punnettssquare.com)
  • As much as I find cloning of genes interesting, I do wonder about the possible risk factors involved, besides those listed above. (punnettssquare.com)
  • I also do think that cloning of genes as a whole could be a very useful practice, especially with genes that may be correlated to positive human growth and health. (punnettssquare.com)
  • The various clones representing all the genes of an organism are called gene library of that organism. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • In phylogenetic analyses, the hemoglobin genes from M. amblycephala and other cypriniformes clustered into one branch, and those from other fishes and mammals clustered into other branches, revealing fish hemoglobin conservation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Just like other cloned animals, the ibex presented health problems like physical defects in its lungs. (nyln.org)
  • 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)
  • Science and technology has advanced to the point that we can now clone animals. (umass.edu)
  • however, the success rate remains very low - less than ten percent of cloned animals survive until birth. (punnettssquare.com)
  • This article was pretty interesting because of the cloning and how its progressed to animals. (punnettssquare.com)
  • Asexually reproducing lower animals like Amoeba proteus also produces clones. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • Artificial cloning has been achieved in higher animals. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • Do cloned animals have the same personality? (pooginook.com)
  • Myth: Clones have exactly the same temperament and personality as the animals from which they were cloned. (pooginook.com)
  • The scientifically groundbreaking announcement also set off a media firestorm as experts and casual observers wrestled with lab-made mammals' ethical implications. (yahoo.com)
  • As such, some nations have banned human cloning because of the ethical issues that might arise. (nyln.org)
  • The report offers an ethical and policy analysis, articulating what makes cloning morally repugnant and calling for the practice to be definitively prohibited in the United States. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Human cloning is possibly one of the most heated and relevant ethical debates of our time. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • Although twins are essentially clones, they formed through a natural process rather than an artificial one. (nyln.org)
  • This was the first successful artificial cloning of a mammal. (biologyonline.com)
  • This also might have explained why cloning is inefficient: only 1-3% of cloned embryos eventually develop into an adult clone. (rupress.org)
  • Cloning is the process of taking genetic material from one organism, and creating an identical copy of it by growing it artificially. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • The term "clone", from the Greek word for twig, denotes a group of identical entities. (who.int)
  • In sexual reproduction, clones are created when a fertilized egg splits to produce identical (monozygous) twins with identical genomes. (who.int)
  • Dolly was the first successful cloning of a mammal from an adult somatic cell, demonstrating the viability of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). (yahoo.com)
  • Sometimes the process of cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer still produces abnormal embryos, most of which die. (wptv.com)
  • More than 10 different cell types have been used successfully as "parents" for cloning. (wptv.com)
  • For the most part, cloning is achieved through a process known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). (syfy.com)
  • Figure 1: Dog cloned by somatic-cell nuclear transfer. (nature.com)
  • If a person is aging, they could have their young cell cloned in order to preserve their youth. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • For those who are not familiar, Dolly is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell successfully. (ktswblog.net)
  • Cell cloning is the formation of multiple copies of the same cell. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • With human cloning, organs could be cloned from the person's tissue and used as a transplant. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • There's also the question of what happens with those clones that do survive into adulthood -- they may face pressure to live up to the original. (engadget.com)
  • Couples who are not able to naturally conceive a child would be able to clone themselves in order to have a biological child. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • People who are cloned would likely be viewed as lesser citizens than those who where conceived naturally. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • 97% of wild mammals have been found to be naturally infected identity was considered a match. (cdc.gov)
  • More than 100 nuclear transfer procedures could be required to produce one viable clone. (wikiquote.org)
  • In 2003, a cloning experiment was performed to clone a Javan Banteng, a breed of wild cattle. (umass.edu)
  • Yersinia is named in honor of Alexander Yersin, who successfully isolated the bacteria in 1894 during the pandemic that began in China in the 1860s. (medscape.com)
  • Whilst it is targeted at 14-18 year olds, 'Biotechnology and Cloning' assumes a high level of knowledge on an ambitious range of hard to grasp topics, none of which are directly explained in the book. (progress.org.uk)
  • Buy Biotechnology and Cloning from Amazon UK . (progress.org.uk)
  • It took 127 eggs and 79 embryos to get these results, and it still required a fetus to work (Dolly was cloned from an adult). (engadget.com)
  • Genetic engineering uses recombinant DNA, molecular cloning, and transformation. (biologyonline.com)
  • Can we clone dinosaurs, like in Jurassic Park ? (syfy.com)
  • While cloning provides skepticism to many who watched the film "Jurassic Park," it is not what we intend to accomplish. (umass.edu)
  • The Threat of Human Cloning begins by laying out the scientific and policy background of the cloning debates. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • The present report gives an overview of the terms and methods used in cloning and summarizes the debates in the General Assembly. (who.int)
  • Another experiment, accomplished in 2009, was to clone the Bucardo, an extinct wild goat indigenous to mountainous regions of Spain. (umass.edu)
  • A decade later, an Asian carp was successfully cloned. (nyln.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)
  • They would simply take the tissue of the child and create a clone. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • However, in 2008 Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama of Kobe's Riken Center for Developmental Biology, pioneered a technique for cloning mammals from frozen soft tissue. (worldnewscenter.org)
  • This growing population of duplicate trees did not need seed dispersers to successfully reproduce-the trees simply cloned themselves. (cincynature.org)
  • Polly was Wilmut's last cloning experiment. (yahoo.com)
  • As mentioned earlier, clones tend to have several health issues. (nyln.org)
  • 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)
  • At $50,000 a pet, there are unlikely to be huge numbers of cloned cats in the near future. (pooginook.com)
  • Whether or not you mind cloning based on fetuses, the process currently requires many failures to get to the intended results. (engadget.com)
  • 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)
  • Cloning-for-biomedical-research is also profoundly unethical, as it turns human reproduction into a manufacturing process in the most literal sense: human embryos are created to serve as raw materials for the production of biomedical research supplies. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • With the current information that we have on the process of cloning, there seems to be very limited success. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • All other countries have bans on the practice of human cloning of any kind. (thenextgalaxy.com)
  • While cloning is still largely the stuff of science fiction, we've actually got a pretty good handle on the science of it. (syfy.com)
  • But with cloning, parents can get the exact same child by having genetic material from the first cloned. (nyln.org)
  • Czech scientist Helena Fulková is one of those who are looking for a deeper sense of cloning „, says Iveta Toušlová, the author and presenter of the show Geyser. (vuzv.cz)
  • Ian led the research team that produce the first cloned mammal in Dolly. (stv.tv)
  • Not only would cloning-to-produce-children be a dangerous experimental procedure, one that cannot be consented to by its subjects (the children created by it), it is also a profound distortion of the moral meaning of human procreation. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • They produce clones. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • A human clone would begin it's life as an infant, no matter how old the donor. (thenextgalaxy.com)