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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: cloning

cloning stories: 25 news summaries

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NY to Clone Central Park 'Tree-nome'

Cuttings will be replicated in lab, replanted across city

Jan 11, 08 4:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Arborists and geneticists are collaborating on a project to bring 1 million new trees to New York's gritty streets by 2016. They won't be entirely new, though, Newsday reports. Cuttings will be taken from several species in Central Park, then shipped to an Oregon lab where they will be cloned,... More »

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New York City • trees • cloning • Central Park • beech trees

Cloned Meat, Milk Near Nod

FDA is about to approve clones, despite industry opposition

Jan 4, 08 6:45 AM CST
(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration is expected to clear the way for milk and meat from cloned animals to be sold in US supermarkets by declaring the products safe as early as next week, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cloning companies are poised to begin churning out animals once a... More »

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European Union • meat • Whole Foods • cloning • dairy products • biotech companies • ViaGen Inc. • Trans Ova Genetics • Dean Foods • The Food Marketing Institute • Grocery Manufacturers Association • Hormel Foods Corp. • American Meat Institute

Dolly Scientist Dumps Embryo Cloning Method

Switches to less controversial
Japanese technique

Nov 18, 07 7:18 AM CST
(Newser) - The scientist who created the cloned sheep Dolly is now abandoning the technique he pioneered in favor of a rival method of cell modification developed in Japan. The Japanese approach, which genetically manipulates adult human cells, has proven less controversial than embryonic stem cell research. But scientist Ian Wilmut insists... More »

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stem cell research • Japan • stem cells • Parkinson's disease • heart attack • cloning • stroke • Dolly the sheep • Ian Wilmut

Scientists Clone Monkey Embryos

Stem cells successfully extracted, raising
hopes for humans

Nov 14, 07 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Oregon scientists have successfully cloned dozens of monkey embryos and extracted stem cells from them, a long-sought breakthrough that raises hopes of doing the same in humans. After years of failure—and even fraud—scientists feared a fundamental barrier to primate cloning, the Independent reports. “To me, it’s... More »

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stem cell research • cloning

Fake Cloner Stumbled
Onto Major
Stem Cell Find

Scandal overshadowed self-fertilizing eggs

Aug 3, 07 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The South Korean stem cell researcher who faked cloning a human egg and forged research results actually made a huge discovery without realizing it. Scientists reviewing his work have discovered that his team's embryonic stem cells were the product of unfertilized eggs that underwent parthenogenesis, or divided on their own,... More »

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stem cell research • fraud • South Korea • stem cells • parthenogenesis • Hwang Woo suk • cloning

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