Gene targeting used in sheep clones
Scientists at PPL Therapeutics have used gene targeting to produce cloned sheep with a precise genetic alteration. The UK biotech firm, which is the commercial offshoot of the institute that cloned Dolly the sheep, published their results in last week's Nature. Gene targeting allows researchers to add, replace or remove...
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Genome fallout
by Juliet Tizzard
Wouldn't it have been hilarious if some plucky journalist had asked Tony Blair or Bill Clinton to substantiate their hyperbolic exclamations about the first draft of the human genome? 'Could you explain why, Tony, you think that this is more important than antibiotics?' The stuttering and stammering would have been...