• That's why Branson has called in Keith Campbell, the scientist known for his ground breaking work with Dolly the cloned sheep, for help. (weeklyworldnews.com)
  • Ever since cloning produced Dolly the sheep , scientists have copied a slew of mammals ranging from dogs to ponies. (engadget.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Prof Wilmut hoped cloning would mean no species became extinct - but Dolly also helped to pioneer stem cell research. (stv.tv)
  • 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)
  • Ian led the research team that produce the first cloned mammal in Dolly. (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)
  • It became a hot topic in 1996 when Dolly the sheep was cloned via a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer. (archstl.org)
  • 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)
  • Let's wind back the clock: these scientists had already carried out successful human nuclear transfer into an unfertilised egg before Dolly the sheep clone had been made. (globalchange.com)
  • In other words, the huge media rush about Dolly came only because the Dolly scientists in Edinburgh came clean sooner. (globalchange.com)
  • But even they omitted to tell us anything until Dolly was seven months old, well over a year after the cloning technique was successfully carried out and a good two to three years perhaps after they began their secretive work. (globalchange.com)
  • Many animal cloners -- including Ian Wilmut, the Scottish researcher who successfully cloned the first animal, Dolly the sheep, in 1997 -- disapprove of human cloning. (culteducation.com)
  • Wilmut has said it took 276 failed attempts before Dolly was successfully cloned. (culteducation.com)
  • Sir Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, has died at 79. (yahoo.com)
  • 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)
  • A year before Dolly, he successfully cloned two lambs (Megan and Morag) whose cells were taken from sheep embryos. (yahoo.com)
  • Several western scientists have been conducting their research in Asian countries in the past few years, including Cibelli, formerly of Advanced Cell Technology, an early U.S. pioneer of embryo research, as well as Alan Colman, now located in Singapore, one of the scientists who helped create the first mammalian clone, the sheep Dolly. (publicintegrity.org)
  • The researchers used somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same technique used to clone Dolly the sheep more than two decades ago, to clone the monkey and produce five cloned offspring. (inverse.com)
  • Dolly, a Finn Dorset sheep, was introduced to the public in 1997 after scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland implanted the cell nucleus from a sheep into an egg that was subsequently fertilized to create a clone. (pewresearch.org)
  • 1 No one has ever cloned a human being , though scientists have cloned animals other than Dolly , including dogs, pigs, cows, horses and cats. (pewresearch.org)
  • Still, a majority of adults (60%) say cloning animals like Dolly is morally wrong, compared with 34% who say it's morally acceptable. (pewresearch.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Scientists clone a sheep named Dolly. (themovietimeline.com)
  • Those were side effects during the process that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep. (wtnnews.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)
  • According to the scientists, this Willa's genes had been fertilized into an embryo first. (theeyota.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)
  • 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)
  • And former University of Kentucky professor Panos Zavos has also announced plans to clone a human, but he told CNN earlier this year he had not successfully created an embryo yet. (culteducation.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Last year, Hwang's team said it successfully cloned a human embryo from embryonic stem cells. (blogspot.com)
  • According to MBC, the scientist "maintains that Hwang's team fabricated data because in reality it failed to clone a somatic cell and instead used a frozen embryo from the hospital to make stem cells. (blogspot.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)
  • Other than a tiny number of weird scientists, it's hard to find anyone who likes the idea of implanting a cloned embryo into a woman's womb, risking not only the health of the "mother" but almost certainly producing babies with birth defects. (wtnnews.com)
  • Australia's federal cabinet moved this week to ban the use of leftover in-vitro fertilization embryos for research, provoking speculation that renowned Australian scientists may immigrate to countries where embryo research is permitted. (wnd.com)
  • In January, the company revealed that a promising bovine study confirmed their expectations that cloned embryo cells could be directed to grow a functioning organ. (wnd.com)
  • Therapeutic cloning, known as "clone and kill" because the embryo is not transplanted into a surrogate mother for development, is favored by many scientists. (wnd.com)
  • The human embryo is cloned, then used only for research or therapeutic treatments. (wnd.com)
  • The object of reproductive cloning is to implant the cloned embryo into a surrogate mother and permit the human child to develop. (wnd.com)
  • Gene, the first cloned calf in the world was born in 1997 at the American Breeders Service facilities in Deforest, Wisconsin, United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • Clonaid, which calls itself the "first human cloning company," was founded in 1997. (culteducation.com)
  • Polly, born in 1997, was the first genetically modified cloned mammal. (yahoo.com)
  • Illustration by Shinod AP] Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, UK, made history on 27th February 1997, when they successfully cloned a sheep. (pitara.com)
  • After years of experiments …cloning hit the big time in February 1997. (exposingsatanism.org)
  • 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's successful birth in 1996 marked the first time a mammal was successfully cloned from an adult cell. (yahoo.com)
  • Twenty years ago today, the world's first clone made from the cells of an adult mammal made her public debut. (pewresearch.org)
  • That month, scientists reported the first successful attempt to reproduce a large, adult mammal through cloning. (exposingsatanism.org)
  • The Threat of Human Cloning concludes by calling for laws prohibiting both human cloning and the creation of embryos for research. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • China enacted regulations early this year to allow the cloning of human embryos for research, and South Korea enacted similar legislation to allow research days ahead of the February announcement. (publicintegrity.org)
  • 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)
  • The Australian government has issued its first license for cloning human embryos to obtain embryonic stem cells. (bioedge.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Judging by the successful growth of the combined human-cow clone creation it appears that cow mitochondria may well be compatible with human embryonic development. (globalchange.com)
  • Chinese scientists at various research institutions have reported successful experiments in human cloning, including the production of human-rabbit hybrid embryonic stem cells, according to the claims of Professor Lu Guangxiu at Xiangya Medical College, who told the Wall Street Journal in March of 2002 that researchers at the College had been successfully cloning embryos for two years. (publicintegrity.org)
  • In Japan, scientists at Kyoto University announced in January that they had successfully produced embryonic stem cells domestically for the first time. (publicintegrity.org)
  • hero" is the right word for how Hwang Woo-suk is revered by the media -- and by a large section of the Korean public who have bought into the false promises of embryonic stem cell and cloning researchers. (blogspot.com)
  • After Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed a bill that would have banned cloning of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes, the legislative director of Wisconsin's Right to Life movement made a remark that seemed straight out of a science fiction movie. (wtnnews.com)
  • But cloning for therapeutic reasons - meaning, carefully regulated research into disease using human embryonic embryos - is an entirely different matter. (wtnnews.com)
  • Since then, the South Korean scientists have reported creating nearly a dozen new lines of human embryonic stem cells that for the first time carry the genetic signature of diseased or injured patients. (wtnnews.com)
  • In 2001 researchers at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, reported that 24 successfully cloned Holsteins had been monitored from birth to the age of four. (wikipedia.org)
  • A linkurl:report;http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/2007-0252v1.pdf published online today that researchers have cloned human embryos is not that much of an advance, according to one stem cell expert, Douglas Melton, at Harvard University. (the-scientist.com)
  • Looking for new techniques to clone and produce resistant trees through micropropagation, the Guelph researchers selected tissue samples from survivors in Ontario, including a century-old elm tree growing on the U of G campus. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Researchers at the University of Georgia have successfully cryogenically frozen germplasm from hemlock trees being wiped out around the country by the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. (savatree.com)
  • While an international framework to regulate cloning remains stalled in the United Nations, some Asian countries are offering more stable climates for researchers to pursue their work. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Exactly one year ago, the same researchers announced that they'd successfully cloned two macaques , named Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong. (inverse.com)
  • Adding on top of that the successful cloning of primates with CRISPR-mediated gene deletions, the researchers have gone to great lengths to study the biological mechanisms for genetic diseases. (inverse.com)
  • The researchers are undeterred, as the benefits of the cloned monkeys could be significant for drug research. (inverse.com)
  • In a 2013 Pew Research Center poll , half of all adults surveyed (50%) said that by 2050 researchers will be able to use cloning to bring back extinct species, with 48% predicting such a development won't occur. (pewresearch.org)
  • A Korean television station whose investigative report was the nail in the coffin that prompted human cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk to admit he lied about egg donations his researchers made says he may have lied about the results of his research as well. (blogspot.com)
  • Therapeutic cloning, as distinct from reproductive cloning, will lead to unprecedented medical advances, say researchers. (wnd.com)
  • The authors described seroconversion of antinuclear antibodies in two patients with the longest follow-up, "indicating that abrogation of autoimmune B-cell clones may lead to a more widespread correction of autoimmunity," the researchers write. (medscape.com)
  • concept of animal cloning, which has now been successfully carried out with sheep and a number of other mammals. (brandeis.edu)
  • Scientists have already made geep (combined sheep and goat), and camas (combined camels and lamas) simply by rolling two balls of cells together after fertilisation. (globalchange.com)
  • Specifically, many wondered: If they're doing sheep now, how long until they clone humans? (yahoo.com)
  • This Iranian wild sheep was cloned using the same method as Folch et al. (umass.edu)
  • 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)
  • In 2004, the first commercially cloned cat, Little Nicky, was created by Genetic Savings & Clone. (wikipedia.org)
  • They have intentions of helping the ones who need genetic modification or genetic patching for a successful cloning process. (theeyota.com)
  • In a world where internet singing sensations are a dime a dozen, it only makes sense to take the greatest boy singer ever, clone him, and produce the greatest boy band of all time," said Ed Rothenberger, a scientist in the University of Vancouver's genetic research department. (weeklyworldnews.com)
  • In theory, this makes human cloning more realistic given the genetic similarities between monkeys and our own species. (engadget.com)
  • This would also be the start to the age of genetic engineering and the first time scientists have changed the human germ line. (ipl.org)
  • Thanks to the genetic code perfectly preserved in the still intact blood cells, the scientists then clone a dinosaur. (forbes.com)
  • This form of genetic engineering would deny the children it produces an open future, burdening them with the expectation that they will be like the individuals from whom they were cloned. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • And cloning could make possible still more dramatic forms of genetic engineering. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • To make a clone, scientists first take an egg and remove all of its genetic material. (culteducation.com)
  • Five clones of a gene-edited long-tailed macaque with several symptoms of genetic disease have been successfully bred, announced a team of scientists in Shanghai this week. (inverse.com)
  • Without the interference of genetic background, a much smaller number of cloned monkeys carrying disease phenotypes may be sufficient for pre-clinical tests of the efficacy of therapeutics. (inverse.com)
  • Part of the reason is that cloning can introduce profound genetic errors , which can result in early and painful death. (pewresearch.org)
  • The Marmorkrebs clone is a separate species (Procambarus virginalis), which, as genetic studies have shown, has split from the slough crayfish found in the Everglades (Procambarus fallax) some 30 years ago. (dkfz.de)
  • In the 1950s, largely as the result of the pioneering work of James Watson (1928-) and Francis Crick (1916-), scientists discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules and how DNA stores and transmit genetic information. (faqs.org)
  • Scientists continue to decode the genetic blueprints of the planet's myriad flora and fauna. (sciencenews.org)
  • Genome Project successfully maps human genetic blueprint: DNA. (themovietimeline.com)
  • The reality of genetic defects passed on to the cloned child ought to be discussed, according to Fernando Zegers-Hochschild, director of the Unit of Reproductive Medicine at Clinica Las Condes in Santiago, Chile. (wnd.com)
  • 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)
  • the infectious clone of WIV1 was successfully constructed using reverse genetic methods. (blogspot.com)
  • [ 2 ] Three biovars (with minor genetic variations) have been identified within the Y pestis clone: Antiqua, Medievalis, and Orientalis. (medscape.com)
  • The US scientists achieved a great victory by being successful to clone the first US endangered species, the black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann. (theeyota.com)
  • Elizabeth Ann is the first-ever cloned member among the US endangered species. (theeyota.com)
  • However, the importance of the technique has been realized and several endangered species including a Mongolian wild horse are expected to give rebirth via cloning. (theeyota.com)
  • 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)
  • Przewalski's horse: Could cloning save this endangered species from extinction? (euronews.com)
  • In a major breakthrough, scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai have successfully cloned long-tailed macaque monkeys. (ecowho.com)
  • An Australian ban on therapeutic cloning was lifted in December 2006 after a long debate in Federal parliament. (bioedge.org)
  • A growing number of U.S. legislators seem prepared to support research on therapeutic cloning. (publicintegrity.org)
  • While use of therapeutic cloning to produce "replacement" body parts is possible, the grand opening of "Body Parts 'R Us" is years and probably decades away. (wtnnews.com)
  • What's new is therapeutic cloning of human stem cells. (wtnnews.com)
  • Therapeutic cloning isn't being done in Wisconsin today, but Doyle wisely refused to cut off the possibility it might someday happen. (wtnnews.com)
  • Certainly, it's being done in South Korea and the United Kingdom, where therapeutic cloning was protected four years ago. (wtnnews.com)
  • Robert P. Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology claimed his project is "proof of the principle that 'therapeutic cloning' can work. (wnd.com)
  • Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., is the sponsor of a bill, S. 1899, that provides a comprehensive ban on human cloning, both "therapeutic" cloning and reproductive cloning. (wnd.com)
  • The world's first human clone of an adult has now been made, by an American biotechnology company in Massachusetts, Advanced Cell Technology. (globalchange.com)
  • Science teams from the nonprofit Revive & Restore, the animal cloning company ViaGen Pets & Equine, and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance were able to achieve the world's first successfully cloned Przewalski's horse in 2020. (horse-canada.com)
  • Professor Sir Ian Wilmut: The scientist has died at the age of 79. (stv.tv)
  • Wilmut moved to the University of Edinburgh the following decade, focusing on using cloning to make stem cells for regenerative medicine. (yahoo.com)
  • Chinese scientists have successfully cloned two monkeys, breaking a key barrier to cloning humans. (hancockwildlife.org)
  • A) a diagram of the cloning procedure using SCNT, B) the cloned embryos at different stages of development, and C) the five cloned monkeys. (inverse.com)
  • For one thing, the team used the cloned monkeys' resulting psychiatric disorders - including "behaviors resembling anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia" - as signs that they had performed the experiment successfully. (inverse.com)
  • After all, large groups of cloned animals would help eliminate some of the variation that occurs in animal trials, since all of the monkeys would be expected to respond to a drug in the exact same way. (inverse.com)
  • 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)
  • Millie and Emma were two female Jersey cows cloned at the University of Tennessee in 2001. (wikipedia.org)
  • They took a cell from Dr Jose Cibelli, a research scientist and combined it with a cows egg from which the genes had already been removed. (globalchange.com)
  • According to Dr. Jon Hill, a veterinarian who successfully cloned cows at Texas A&M University, even clones who appear normal at birth often develop problems afterward. (culteducation.com)
  • It is not responsible at this stage to even consider the cloning of humans, " said Rudolf Jaenisch, a biologist at MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, which clones mice. (culteducation.com)
  • Cloning a human at this point, he said, without knowing more about why things go wrong, is "essentially using humans as guinea pigs, and one shouldn't do this. (culteducation.com)
  • The original monkey had been altered with CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology to give its clones a disrupted circadian rhythm so that scientists can learn how to treat humans with related disorders. (inverse.com)
  • 3 Americans are divided as to whether humans will be cloned in the near future. (pewresearch.org)
  • 5 Fewer Americans are concerned with cloning animals than with the prospect of cloning humans , according to the same 2016 Gallup survey . (pewresearch.org)
  • Working on a new wing of a scientific facility, Doug meets Dr. Leeds, a friendly scientist who has successfully developed a method for cloning humans . (wikipedia.org)
  • Critics of reproductive cloning point out that it inevitably will be used to create a "master race" of humans. (wnd.com)
  • After successfully cloning a primate for the first time, Chinese scientists insist that they have "no intention" of cloning humans -- but Trevor and his crew are suspicious. (cc.com)
  • French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and writer Joss Whedon set up some complex themes: the growing similarity between Ripley and the alien monsters, cloning, Ripley's memories of her previous life, and her deep-seated mistrust of androids and her fellow humans. (nostalgiacentral.com)
  • Mice Used as Sperm Factories for Pigs, Goats - Hillary Mayell, for National Geographic News August 14, 2002″For the first time scientists have been able to produce viable sperm from the tissue of sexually immature mammals-and at the same time produce sperm of one species in the body of another species. (exposingsatanism.org)
  • I think it's going to be possible to both engineer the viruses out of pigs and then clone the animals, so that you get the same ones again and again. (medscape.com)
  • In 2000, Texas A&M University cloned a Black Angus bull named 86 Squared, after cells from his donor, Bull 86, had been frozen for 15 years. (wikipedia.org)
  • Japan subsequently enacted legislation in late 2000 criminalizing the cloning of human embryos for reproductive purposes. (publicintegrity.org)
  • In 2001, scientists at Texas A&M University created the first cloned cat, CC (CopyCat). (wikipedia.org)
  • A purebred Hereford calf clone named Chloe was born in 2001 at Kansas State University's purebred research unit. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2001, Brazil cloned their first heifer, Vitória. (wikipedia.org)
  • Claude Vorilhon, who founded the Raelians, told CNN in July 2001 that the long-term goal for human cloning is to live forever. (culteducation.com)
  • The United States currently has no comprehensive law, and legislation that would have banned both research and reproductive cloning has failed to reach a vote in the Senate after approval in the House of Representatives in July 2001. (publicintegrity.org)
  • There has been overwhelming opposition to human cloning since 2001. (pewresearch.org)
  • 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)
  • According to recent reports, scientists at the university have teamed up with British billionaire Sir Richard Branson to market and publicize the genetically modified boy band. (weeklyworldnews.com)
  • South Korean scientists say they have successfully cloned piglets whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants. (wn.com)
  • It would be hard to call this a major advance," Douglas Melton, a stem cell researcher at Harvard University, told The Scientist in an Email. (the-scientist.com)
  • Scientists at Seoul National University, led by stem cell researcher Byeong-Chun Lee, successfully created a set of transgenic puppies: beagles which carry a red fluorescent gene from glowing sea anemones. (ebaumsworld.com)
  • In 2019, the first Chinese commercially cloned cat, Garlic, was created by Sinogene Biotechnology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biotechnology and genomic data can make a difference on the ground with conservation efforts," says Ben Novak who's a leading scientist with Revive & Restore, a biotechnology-focused conservation nonprofit that coordinates ferret and horse cloning. (theeyota.com)
  • 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)
  • China has reportedly been increasing its funding for cloning and other biotechnology research efforts. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments ( molecular cloning ), cells (cell cloning), or organisms . (wikiquote.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)
  • He said cloning research was no longer necessary because of recent advances in stem cell science. (bioedge.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • At the same time, labs in a variety of countries have successfully cloned human embryos for the purpose of producing stem cells that can be used in medical therapies. (pewresearch.org)
  • Still, the prospect of being able to study the root causes of a disease in an immortal, cloned line of stem cells is exciting enough. (wtnnews.com)
  • Pampa, a Jersey calf, was the first animal cloned in Argentina (by the company Bio Sidus) in 2002. (wikipedia.org)
  • In sexual reproduction, clones are created when a fertilized egg splits to produce identical (monozygous) twins with identical genomes. (who.int)
  • 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 United Nations ad hoc committee has opened discussions on the merits and morality of cloning human beings, addressing many new questions that arise when considering the impact of such practice. (wnd.com)
  • The first ever meeting of the Committee on an International Convention Against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings last week hosted national delegates and experts from Syria, Chile, Israel, Spain and the United States, among others. (wnd.com)
  • In 2019, the first batch of monotocous cloned police dogs was born. (wikipedia.org)
  • A Javan banteng calf was cloned from frozen cells using a cow as a surrogate, delivered via c-section on April 1, 2003, then hand raised at the San Diego Wild Animal Parks Infant Isolation Unit. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sooam Biotech, Korea cloned eight coyotes in 2011 using domestic dogs as surrogate mothers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Kurt was born to a surrogate mother - a domestic quarter horse - and is the clone of a male Przewalski's stallion whose living cell line was cryopreserved 43 years ago in the Alliance's Frozen Zoo, part of the Wildlife Biodiversity Bank. (horse-canada.com)
  • South Korean professor and cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk, is in yet more trouble. (blogspot.com)
  • South Korean scientists were the first to report successfully doing so in early 2004, but they produced just one cell line from 200 tries. (wtnnews.com)
  • Not even the South Korean scientists claim they're close to transplanting cells into a human, however. (wtnnews.com)
  • They also reportedly charged $100,000 for each cloned puppy. (wikipedia.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)
  • The first obstacle to cloning your dog is that $100,000 cost. (wikiquote.org)
  • Boisselier says the immediate purpose for cloning is to help infertile couples. (culteducation.com)
  • Reproductive cloning is defended as a means of providing children for infertile couples or for homosexual pairs. (wnd.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)
  • An Anatolian Grey bull (Efe) was cloned in Turkey in 2009 and four female calves from the same breed (Ece, Ecem, Nilüfer, Kiraz) in 2010 by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). (wikipedia.org)
  • A Boran cattle bull was cloned at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi. (wikipedia.org)
  • The breakthrough, published March 29 in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research , is the first known use of in vitro culture technology to clone buds of mature American elm trees. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This research has the potential to bring back the beloved American elm population to North America," said Prof. Praveen Saxena, a plant scientist who worked on the project with Professor Alan Sullivan. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Cloning-for-biomedical-research also endangers the health and safety of the women called on to undergo dangerous hormone treatments to serve as egg donors. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • If research cloning is not stopped now, we face the prospect of the mass farming of human embryos and fetuses, and the transformation of the noble enterprise of biomedical research into a grotesque system of exploitation and death. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Medals are presented annually at Brandeis University on the basis of recommendations of a panel of outstanding scientists selected by the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center. (brandeis.edu)
  • Awards are given to scientists for recent discoveries of particular originality and importance to basic medical research. (brandeis.edu)
  • In January, the National Academy of Sciences recommended a ban on human cloning, but only four states -- California, Michigan, Louisiana and Rhode Island -- ban any type of cloning research. (culteducation.com)
  • The privately-funded experiment, which took place at Seoul National University under the guidance of Korean Hwang Woo-suk and American Jose Cibelli, was only the latest in a group of announcements from research institutions in Asia in the last few years, and demonstrates that cloning research is becoming "globalized" like any other commodity. (publicintegrity.org)
  • I would expect the scientists who are proposing this research to have very good responses to very hard questions about their methods and the expected benefits of their research. (inverse.com)
  • I have heard many scientists describe their first appre-ciation of this, at the hands of some esteemed mentor in a famous research institution. (nobelprize.org)
  • In a 2010 Pew Research Center survey , 48% of adults said that a human being would definitely or probably be cloned by 2050, compared with 49% who said such an event would not happen. (pewresearch.org)
  • Ever since, the female animals have been able to spread successfully and massively without any help from males, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) report in a current publication. (dkfz.de)
  • However, Korean television station MBC has conducted interviews with an unnamed member of Hwang's research team who says the cells were never cloned successfully. (blogspot.com)
  • The first day of debate provoked strong arguments both in favor of freedom of research and in favor of a ban on human cloning. (wnd.com)
  • This process typically called Hair Multiplication or more incorrectly Hair Cloning is currently being investigated by several research scientists and hair restoration physicians. (hairlosslearningcenter.org)
  • 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)
  • Even while clones are genetically identical, their phenotypes - the characteristics they express - will be different. (wptv.com)
  • á belongs to a small group of world´s leading scientists who have successfully cloned mice. (vuzv.cz)
  • All four women received the implant successfully and report full working order. (ebaumsworld.com)
  • 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)
  • National delegates as well as scientists favor a coordinated international approach to resolve the ethical and juridical issues. (wnd.com)
  • Overall, our modular assembly-based system yielded high PE rates and streamlined the cloning of prime editing reagents, making it feasible for more labs to utilize PE for their editing experiments. (bvsalud.org)
  • In another part of the study, a scientist in Madagascar additionally examined how well the crayfish is able to spread in the wild via parthenogenesis. (dkfz.de)
  • In the paper, they explain that the ability to produce gene-edited clones will help them study diseases related to disrupted circadian rhythm , including Alzheimer's disease, depression, and other sleep problems. (inverse.com)
  • Two of these cloned cattle successfully mated, each producing a healthy calf. (wikipedia.org)
  • In July 2016 scientists at the National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza in Chachapoyas, Peru cloned a Jersey cattle by handmade cloning method using cells of an ear of a cow. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2003, a cloning experiment was performed to clone a Javan Banteng, a breed of wild cattle. (umass.edu)
  • Sometimes the process of cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer still produces abnormal embryos, most of which die. (wptv.com)
  • Scientists were initially interested in somatic-cell nuclear transfer as a means of determining whether genes remain functional even after most of them have been switched off as the cells in a developing organism assume their specialized functions as blood cells, muscle cells, and so forth. (who.int)
  • Scientists define a mass extinction as around three-quarters of all species dying out over a short geological time, which is anything less than 2.8 million years, according to The Conversation . (livescience.com)
  • As Amber Tong reported for Endpoints News at the time, the challenges of cloning primates made this achievement a momentous one. (inverse.com)
  • Though the technology was not sufficiently advanced at the time, the scientists took a risk, hoping that cloning would be perfected and the frozen samples could be used to help this species , along with many others in the future. (euronews.com)
  • Sympathetic to Doug's troubles, he clones him, so the clone can take over for Doug at work, while the original tries to spend quality time with his family. (wikipedia.org)
  • As time passes, Doug's wife becomes increasingly upset with her husband's erratic behavior and how he has no memories of discussions Laura unwittingly had with another clone. (wikipedia.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)
  • 2 Eight-in-ten American adults (81%) say cloning a human being is not morally acceptable, according to a May 2016 Gallup poll . (pewresearch.org)
  • Just 13% of adults in 2016 say cloning is morally acceptable. (pewresearch.org)
  • She is a laureate of the prestigious Otto Wichterle Award 2015 and in 2016 she received the Neuron Award for Promising Young Scientists in Medicine from the Neuron Endowment Fund. (vuzv.cz)
  • 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)
  • Boisselier had told a congressional committee last year that she believed she had the knowledge to produce a human clone in the near future. (culteducation.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)
  • 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)
  • While bringing back dinosaurs , à la Jurassic Park, might not possible due to the fact that dinosaurs have been dead for tens of millions of years, scientists could conceivably use fresher tissue samples to bring back more recently extinct species. (pewresearch.org)
  • This animal has had such a positive impact on how society engages with science and how scientists engage with society. (stv.tv)
  • But human cloning is controversial, because the experience with animal cloning has shown a lot of potential for things to go wrong. (culteducation.com)
  • The next step after cloning an animal would be its reintroduction to its natural habitat. (umass.edu)
  • Thus, one could know the characteristics of the animal being cloned. (wptv.com)
  • 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)
  • It remains a big problem for the cloning technology," an anonymous Shanghai-based life scientist who was not involved in the story told South China Morning Post . (inverse.com)
  • A Holstein heifer named Daisy was cloned by Dr. Xiangzhong (Jerry) Yang using ear skin cells from a high-merit cow named Aspen at the University of Connecticut in 1999, followed by three additional clones, Amy, Betty, and Cathy in 1999. (wikipedia.org)
  • One puppy was cloned from the cells of a dog that had died 12 days before. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chinese scientists have successfully created chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. (bioedge.org)
  • These days most cloning is done using cells obtained by biopsying skin. (wptv.com)
  • To successfully clone human cells, eggs must be dunked in the stimulant. (sciencenews.org)
  • First or all, scientists have been cloning human cells or their components for years. (wtnnews.com)
  • That was until, in 2020, the DNA of a Przewalski's horse frozen 42 years ago was successfully cloned. (euronews.com)
  • Many nations oppose human reproductive cloning as "inherently unethical. (wnd.com)
  • 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)
  • 4 The public is divided about the prospect of using cloning to bring back to life species of animals that are currently extinct , such as the carrier pigeon or even the woolly mammoth. (pewresearch.org)
  • Science and technology has advanced to the point that we can now clone animals. (umass.edu)
  • Reproductive cloning in animals has a 3-8 percent success rate. (wnd.com)
  • Their physiology resembles ours, and it has been the dream of many scientists to address the huge shortage in organs by somehow coming up with xenografts-the use of animals as sources of organs. (medscape.com)
  • The technology proved durable enough to successfully measure 108 shifts of data out of 115 attempts in the mines. (cdc.gov)
  • The process known as "DNA cloning," "molecular cloning" or "gene cloning" has been used widely since the 1970s. (wtnnews.com)
  • Receive full access to more than 35 years of archives , as well as TS Digest , digital editions of The Scientist , feature stories , and much more! (the-scientist.com)
  • Something that scientist have been working to perfect for many years is the modernization of eugenics. (ipl.org)
  • However the biggest piece of news is not what they did in human cloning - sensational enough - but the fact that they kept cloning secret for three years after doing it, and presumably they were trying to do it at least a couple of years before that. (globalchange.com)
  • About 30 years ago, the original clone evolved in an aquarium. (dkfz.de)
  • Some years ago, a freshwater crayfish which reproduced alone in the aquarium puzzled pet owners and scientists. (dkfz.de)
  • Scientists hate to talk about something they haven't done" (There you go… so if you are hearing them talk about it, you can believe they have perfected it, after many years of experimentation. (exposingsatanism.org)
  • In the fast 40 years, amazingdiscoveries and development of revolutionary new techniques have allowed scientists to learn a great deal about how genes work and how they are linked todisease. (faqs.org)
  • In this fourth instalment in the Alien franchise - set 200 years after the events of Alien 3 - scientists on the earth-bound ship Auriga bring to life a cloned Ripley and successfully extract the DNA from her unborn alien child to create the ultimate biological weapon. (nostalgiacentral.com)