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 …
australian scientists have launched a programme to bring the extinct Tasmanian tiger back to life. They are pinning their hopes on a Tasmanian tiger cub, preserved in alcohol for more than 130 years. The Australian Museum unveiled a new trust that will fund research aimed at resurrecting the specie. The …
The world's first cloned mammal, Dolly, may not technically be a clone, but a mix of two animals. It is therefore a chimera with two mothers, rather than a pure clone, says a recent report in the journal Nature Genetics. "Whereas the controversy over the origin of Dolly's nuclear DNA …
There is reason to believe that Dolly, the cloned sheep, inherited some of the wear and tear suffered by her six-year-old mother's cells. The ends of Dolly's chromosomes are shorter than those of normal sheep of the same age, point out researchers at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland. When …
chinese scientists have achieved a major breakthrough by cloning the endangered giant panda by growing an embryo that contains genes from a dead panda. The proposal to clone pandas reflects the frustrations of zoologists who, after decades of research, remain puzzled by many aspects of panda reproductive physiology. According to …
ian Wilmut, the scientist who created Dolly, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell has struck a million-dollar deal with a us company to work on human cloning. According to a report in the London Daily Telegraph , Wilmut had agreed to help develop techniques to clone a …
CLONING TECHNOLOGY: Geron, the US-based biotechnology company specialising in embryo research has bought the Scottish cloning technology that led to Dolly the sheep. The company aims to clone patients' cells to produce specialised tissues for transplantation. Geron is issuing about US $28 million of new shares to buy Roslin Bio-Med, …
cloning continues to be in news. Now, two calves have been cloned from cells present in cow's milk in northern Japan recently. The clones at the Snow Brand dairy company's research centre in Japan's northern most main island of Hokkaido were the first-ever using colostrum
THE Centre For Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad will adopt cloning techniques to preserve endangered species like lions and tigers. A centre comprising scientifically designed enclosures will house lions and tigers, to begin with. It will be set up near the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad. The Andhra …
SCIENTISTS at the New York University have come up with another possible way of helping women overcome infertility: they took the genes of an infertile woman and injected them into a donor egg from a fertile woman. The technique, which is similar to the one which was used to clone …
Scientists in China have planned to clone the giant panda as a means of saving the extremely endangered species, according to a participating researcher. In this regard, the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences has granted us $12,000 to fund a project at its Institute of Zoology, said assistant researcher Duan …
after a five-year research, the Kerala Forest Research Institute ( kfri ) in Thrissur, has developed 15 clones of eucalyptus that grow very fast. Now, the institute is planning to register these clones with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources ( nbpgr ). The new clones are expected to …
recent developments in genetic engineering have created a furore. The successful cloning of a sheep, christened Dolly, and the possibility of human cloning have raised questions of ethics which must be urgently addressed. Application of genetic engineering biotechnology is proceeding at a relentless pace today. There is increasing moral and …
Richard Seed is an expert on seeds. Twenty years ago he used to transfer embryos from one cow to another. Then he began to use the same techniques on women. Then he shocked the world by announcing that he would like to clone human babies for desperate couples. This brought …
two scientists in the us have questioned the credibility of Dolly. They say that the experiment must be repeated before its results are accepted. No other scientist has reported cloning a mammal form an adult cell. Citing reasons for their skepticism, Norton Zinder of Rockefeller University, New York, usa and …
Nineteen European nations signed a pact in France on January 12 approving a ban on human cloning. French officials said that the protocol was an annex to the Council of Europe's convention and also the first compulsory juridical instrument banning cloning of humans. The agreement was signed after the French …
EUROPEAN leaders after a recently held two-day summit at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg have pledged to ban human cloning as part of measures to prevent the abuse of technology. The Council promised to outlaw "any intervention to create a human being identical to another human being, whether living …
TWENTY European countries recently signed a treaty which effectively bans human cloning. They signed the first international convention to control research into human genetic engineering and cloning at the Convention on Human Rights and Bio-medicine in Oviedo, Spain. The accord prohibits the use of genetic engineering techniques for anything other …
to say that science and technology is progressing at lightning speed is an understatement. What, however, needs to be questioned is whether it is moving in the right direction or not. Since reports appeared about the existence of Dolly, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from the cells …
The Edinburgh event has been followed by one more 'successful' cloning incident. Barely a week after the world said hello to Dolly, a group of scientists in Oregon, US, claimed, albeit unofficially, that from cloned embryos they have produced monkeys. Apparently, the technique used was similiar to the Scottish experiment. …
