Scientists in Texas, US, announced last week that they have successfully cloned a domestic cat. Mark Westhusin and his colleagues at the Texas A&M University report the process in the 21 February issue of Nature. The kitten, called 'Cc', for carbon copy, is now two months old and appears...
A British woman who became pregnant with a baby specially conceived to help save the life of her five year-old son who has leukaemia has given birth to a girl. The baby girl is the second in the world to be born following a genetic selection process that ensured she...
Doctors have successfully used gene therapy in the treatment for a type of haemophilia, a condition caused by a defect in one of the genes which controls blood clotting. Sufferers bruise easily, are prone to nosebleeds, and have a risk of internal bleeding. A virus that had been genetically altered...
Scientists in the US have developed a genetically modified mouthwash, which it is thought will be an effective tool in the fight against tooth decay. It is hoped that clinical trials of the mouthwash will begin in the US and UK by the end of the year. The findings of...
A meeting of President Bush's Council on Bioethics ended in division last week. The council members are said to be 'deeply divided over the moral status of the human embryo' and have 'given up hope' that a consensus on the ethics of human cloning can be reached. Leon Kass, a...
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Taking carbon kitty too seriously?
by Juliet Tizzard
As we report in this week's BioNews, scientists in the United States have cloned a cat. Carbon copy (Cc), as the little creature is known, has caused rather a lot of excitement on both sides of the Atlantic, with many column inches being dedicated to the development. Some commentators have...