Tiger safari in Jharkhand
Jharkhand is considering the setting up of a tiger safari at Canary Hill in Hazaribagh to promote preservation of the wild cats and tourism. A detailed report to set up the safari, prepared by the state forest department, has been sent to the central government for approval and financial assistance.
Bush`s stance is preventing a global cloning pact
For three years, the United Nations has been trying to agree on a treaty forbidding reproductive cloning of human beings. A strong consensus for such an accord exists, but no action has been taken because the United States and several other counries want to broaden the ban to include therapeutic …
US scientists clone monkey embryos
In a major scientific development, US biologists have created cloned monkey embryos and successfully transferred them into monkey mothers. "If researchers are able to repeat this process in monkeys, it might help them to refine the tricky technique without experimenting on human eggs and embryos, which are very difficult to …
UN experts seek way out of split on cloning
UN experts will next week enter crisis talks on how to avoid a deeply polarised vote over human cloning, after two days of impassioned appeals both for and agaisnt the creation of embryonic stem cells to help end diseases from Aids to juvenile diabetes to Parkinson's. The US yesterday insisted …
Competing human cloning resolutions divide UN allies
The US and the UK, normally firm allies, are set for a possibly bitter show-down at the United Nations over calls for a total ban on human cloning. Over the coming two days, the UN General Assembly's legal committee will resume a polarised discussion on whether the world should ban …
Schwarnezegger and Bush at odds on tem research
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor or California, has set himself at odds with Presidnet George W. Bush with a powerful endorsement of a proposal for the state to pur $3bn into embryonic stem cell research over 10 years.
Cloning for science
Harvard University scientists are seeking permission to conduct therapeutic cloning that would involve the creation and destruction of early-stage human embryos to get thir stem cells for research. Although this kind of research is anathema to the Bush administration, it is vitally needed to improve scientific understanding of some of …
Digging into Earths biggest catastrophe
Research into the world's worst mass extinction, which wiped out 90 per cent of living species 250m years ago, has discovered evidence that genetic damage prevented plants reproducing. Although no DNA survives from so long ago, fossilised plant spores show indirect signs of
Copycat project moves ahead
Asiatic cheetahs are haunting mandarins of the ministry of environment and forests. The spotted big cats, which were found in India during the medieval period and are now extinct, are all set to be cloned. Scientists from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology are awaiting clearance from the ministry of …
Harnessing stem cells to battle Alzheimers is at least worth a try
Proponents of embryonic stemcell research seized on Nancy Reagan's May 8 speech supporting such experiments and piggybacked on her husband's death from Alzheimer's disease to urge President George W. Bush to lift the crippling restrictions he placed in stem cell studies. Opponents immediately fired back. Citing a Washington Post article …
Cheetah to be cloned
Scientists in the country are hoping to bring back the cheetah, which became extinct in India.This has become possible following an approval received from the Government of Iran to a proposal by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) to clone a close relative of the species found in …
Panel approves moves to clone human embryos
A government advisory panel said that Japan should allow researchers to produce cloned human embryos under certain conditions, panel members said. Opinion worldwide is divided over research on cloned human embryos due to the possibility that such research could lead to the emergence of cloned humans. Proponents say such research …
Human stem cells extracted in NSW
A Sydney fertility clinic has extracted human stem cells from an embryo in a nationwide first, it was reported. The Sydney Morning Herald said scientists at Sydney IVF used a surplus embryo supplied by a Sydney couple who had undergone IVF treatment. The organisation's director Robert Jansen told the newspaper …
A farm full of clones
Prof. Wilmut said the understanding of the genetics of the disease is lacking, as is the extent to which various nerve cell types are affected. There are no effective treatments. The Roslin hopes to collaborate with the Institute of Psychiatry in London to develop normal and diseased nerve cell lines …
Calls on stem-cell policy ramped up
Patient-advocacy groups and members of the U.S. Congress are mounting a steeped-up effort to get the White House to expand its policy on embryonic stem-cell research, but the While House isn't budging. Many advocates would like to see the administration of President George W. Bush take the lead in loosening …
Human embryo research plan is first of its kind
Members of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority met yesterday to consider the first application to clone human embryos. If it is approved, the team of researchers at Newcastle University, led by Dr Miodrag Stojkovic, will clone human embryos and use them as sources of embryonic stem cells, which have …
Scientist to offer couples cloned baby
A controversial American scientist is to open a clinic in Britain this summer offering sterile couples cloning as a form of fertility treatment. Dr Panos Zavos, a maverick fertility doctor who claims to have implanted a cloned embryo in the womb of a 35- year old woman, will hold consultations …
Bush defends stem-cell limit, despite pressure since Reagan death
President Bush restated his commitment to sharply limit stem-cell research, bucking renewed pressure from Nancy Reagan and others to loosen the restrictions in the aftermath of the death of former President Ronald Reagan. Some believe that research using stem cells could result in treatments for Alzheimer's, the disease that led …
Genes in brain start to decline as early as 40
Harvard university researchers found that 20 genes critical for learning and memory begin to decline in function as early as age 40, pointing the way for further research aimed at tackling the mental infirmities that come with growing old.
Junk DNA may not be useless after all
Scientists coined the term junk DNA to describe the genetic wasteland within the human genome which consists of long uncharted stretches of DNA for which there is no known function. But researchers from Harvard medical school in the United States said that within junk DNA in the yeast genome, they …
