Healthy ageing of cloned sheep
<p>The health of cloned animals generated by somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been of concern since its inception; however, there are no detailed assessments of late-onset, non-communicable diseases.
Genetic Cloning
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Extinct animal resurrected by cloning
Breakthrough By Spanish Researchers Raises Hopes Of Saving Endangered And Lost Species London: In what could raise hopes for the regeneration of extinct species, scientists have for the first time resurrected the Pyrenean ibex, a wild mountain goat, by cloning it from frozen tissue.
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Cloning: saving the endangered species
By having exploited the earth
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Struggling to find an appetite for cloned meat
Livestock auctions are not normally the stuff of headlines, but then it's not every day that cows as unusual as Dundee Paradise and Dundee Paratrooper are going under the hammer. The dairy cows were due to be sold at Easter Compton cattle market near Bristol, UK, last month, but at the last minute their owner withdrew them, reportedly unsettled by negative media coverage and local opposition. The problem? The cows' mother was a clone, conceived in a laboratory from a cell taken from the ear of a prize-winning Holstein in Wisconsin.
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No Quick End For Cloning Product Moratorium - USDA
No Quick End For Cloning Product Moratorium - USDA US: April 8, 2008 WASHINGTON - The US Agriculture Department said Monday it will not lift a voluntary moratorium on selling meat and milk from cloned animals to consumers any time soon. In January, the US Food and Drug Administration ruled that products from cloned cattle, swine and goats and their offspring were as safe as milk and meat from traditional animals. Before then, farmers and ranchers had followed a voluntary ban on the sale of cloned products.
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Cloned food safe for consumption, says US
Just over a decade after scientists cloned the first animal, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has declared that meat and milk from cloned farm animals are safe to eat. The announcement
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Son of Frankenfood?
Produce from cloned animals has won regulatory approval. Now companies must persuade consumers to buy it Ben & Jerry
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Buffalo protein against cattle diseases
it is believed that buffaloes are more tolerant to tropical infections than cattle. A new study says Indian water buffalo harbours a protein which can yield antibiotics to cure diseases in cattle.
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Take Heart from Heart
The ethical question doesn't arise when cloning a human organ CUT a stem of a plant and stick it on the ground. Chances are it will grow into a new plant. The cells in the plant stem have the ability to do so. Do we humans have this same ability? Research findings during the last two decades suggest that we might, depending on which of our cells we start from.
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BYTES
numbers phobia: Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) have particular difficulty understanding numbers and sequences, a University of Alberta study shows. An assessment of 50
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Livestock genetics companies: concentration and proprietary strategies of an emerging power in the global food economy
Over past decades, breeding objectives focused almost exclusively on performance: yearly egg production, milk yields, milk fat content, and growth rates. Efforts were concentrated on only a handful of breeds of cattle, pig and chicken. Substantial production increases were thus achieved