Genetic Cloning

U.S. guitar firm tunes business to protect Cameroon ebony

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 …

Third twin? ...not yet

IT SEEMED an incident straight out of the pages of science fiction. On February 23, a team of Scottish scientists announced under that they had created the first ever clone of an adult animal and introduced to the world a seven-month-old sheep called Dolly. The experiment may well be a …

Thou shalt lag no more

Globe trotters might at last get a breather -- a drug for jet lag is in the offing. A team of researchers from the Harvard and Yale Universities' medical schools are close to nailing down the gene responsible for cloning the gene that codes for melatonin, the hormone that governs …

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