Texas-based company, Genetics Savings and Clone, is offering bereaved animal-lovers the chance to 'reincarnate' their dead pets. For a mere $2,500, the firm will take cells from a dead or dying animal and store them until they can be cloned. 'It's a major scientific challenge, but the team is 90...
PPL Therapeutics, the biotech firm that cloned Dolly the sheep, is close to producing the world's first cloned pigs, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph. A surrogate sow is due to give birth to three piglets in April, PPL scientists revealed at a biotech conference last week. But...
US researchers working on mice have reported that some animals may be 'unclonable' because of their genetic make-up. Their findings, reported in this month's Nature Genetics, show that some strains of mice may have more clone-friendly genes than others. 'We didn't expect it, but we found tremendous variability', said William...
Human embryo stem cell research is now a step closer to becoming legal in Japan. The Council for Science and Technology (CST), Japan's main science policy-making body, are expected to submit a proposal to the government in favour of research on human embryonic stem cells around the end of March...
Scientists at Geron BioMed, the company launched after a merger between the team that cloned Dolly the sheep at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh and a stem cell research company in the US, is now concentrating on therapeutic cloning techniques that do not require human egg cells. Cloning in the...
A 96-pound bull calf born in Japan last weekend is the first large mammal to be 're-cloned'. The calf has been successfully cloned from the clone of a bull. Scientists in America had previously only produced second-generation clones in mice. The Japanese scientists at the Kagoshima Prefectural Cattle Breeding...
Last week on British prime time television, the roving comedian Mark Thomas revealed that PPL Therapeutics is planning to rear genetically modified cows, designed to produce human alpha-lactalbumin, a protein found in human breast milk. Thomas, who has waged a one-man war against formula milk manufacturers, interviewed a member of...
A team of American scientists has produced the first non-human primate clone. Tetra, a Rhesus monkey baby, was born in September last year at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in the US. However, the creation of Tetra was not, done by nuclear transfer as Dolly the sheep was. Instead...
Scientists at PPL Therapeutics have announced that 'humanised' milk could be produced from genetically modified cows. PPL has already given human genes to three cows to make them produce alpha-lactalbumin, a protein normally only found in human breast milk. The protein contains chemicals which are essential for the healthy development...
Reports of herds of identical cattle have been raised by the news that Japanese and American scientists have successfully cloned six calves from a bull's ear. The information has been leaked from a research paper awaiting publication, written by scientists from Connecticut University in America and the Kagoshima Prefectural Cattle...
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