Companies that use wood grown in Cameroon - from makers of guitars to electricity poles - are helping revitalise endangered tree species to better sustain their businesses and bolster the fight against climate change. The firms have teamed up with the government and villagers in public-private partnerships to restore forests …
RNL Bio, a South Korean biotech company, is venturing into the world of treating human diseases through stem cell therapies, raising the prospects of a new, highly profitable export industry. The company, famous for the commercial cloning of dogs, is developing therapies using adult stem cells to treat degenerative diseases
Scientists of the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) today meekly admitted that the second buffalo clone to be born in May end had prematurely died and the date about the death of the clone would be provided in next couple of days. The sulking scientists, associated with 20-year-old prestigious buffalo …
Controversial US Doctor Claims To Have Implanted 11 Cloned Embryos In Wombs Of 4 Women London: A United States-based fertility doctor claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women. In an interview published on Wednesday, Panayiotis Zavos told Britain
Washington: US President Barack Obama has said he will not allow human cloning in his country even as he lifted the eight-year-old ban on funding of stem cell research.
To Clone Or Not To Clone... * No-cloning zones: The countries that oppose all forms of cloning include Australia, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan, Zambia. Australia is reviewing its stand on therapeutic cloning. Many scientists in the US too feel that with a new …
After becoming the first country to clone a buffalo, scientists in India are all set to start work on cloning the famous Pashmina goat. A six-member-team of scientists from Karnal
In a major technological breakthrough, scientists of the biotechnology centre of the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) have succeeded in producing the world
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. The Pyrenean ibex was officially declared …
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 …
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 …
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 comes after a six-year-long study by the US Food and Drug Administration, which says food derived from cloned …
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. The protein, called bovine neutrophil beta-defensin-4 (bnbd-4), is effective against bacteria resistant to existing antibiotics. Little data was …
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? …
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 Canadian children diagnosed with FASD, a condition caused by the mother's alcohol consumption while a foetus is still in the womb, revealed that the …
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
