First Commercially Cloned Dog Delivered to Florida Family
BioArts International announced today that they have delivered the world’s first commercially cloned dog, a 10-week old Labrador named Lancey, to Florida residents Edgar and Nina Otto. Boca Raton, FL (Vocus) January 28, 2009 -- BioArts International announced toda...Survey: Most People Unsure About Cloned Food
TROY, Mich., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey shows that more than two-thirds of consumers are uncertain about the safety of cloned food after the recent approval of the Food and Drug Administration. According to the survey from Clear Seas Research, 77.8 percent of respondents said they...Foods From Cloned Animals Safe to Eat: FDA
Agency says that no dangers are posed to American consumers TUESDAY, Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Food products such as meat and milk that come from cloned animals are as safe to eat as foods from conventionally bred animals, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. The a...EU Considers Allowing Cloned Meat, Milk on Market
Meat and milk from cloned animals could soon become available in the EU, depending on the outcome of a European Food Safety// Authority scientific review. EFSA reported yesterday that the European Commission had asked it for advice on the implications of animal cloning on food safety, animal ...EU to Look at Cloned Meat Safety
Europe's food watchdog is to assess whether meat and dairy products from cloned animals// are safe to eat. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was asked by the European Commission to look into the future impacts of livestock cloning. At present, there is no specific regulation...Cloned Human Embryos Successfully Reprogrammed Using Human - But Not Animal - Eggs
... previous reports have documented the formation of cloned embryos using both human and animal eggs, to-date,...shows for the first time that the donor DNA in the cloned human embryos is extensively reprogrammed through ...core factors were activated in both the normal and cloned human embryos. In striking contrast, the human-ani...Research Team Clones Genes Responsible for Amino Acid Absorption
...r. Sundaram said. "Our lab has shown for the first time not only how an important building block of proteins, glutamine, is absorbed, but also we have cloned a gene responsible for this absorption. And most important, we have shown how the absorption of this important nutrient is affected in IBD." Details...Study Reports Successful Cloning of Human Embryo Using Adult DNA
...e performed to confirm the genetic identity of the cloned embryos. In three embryos, tests showed the same D...ery. Previous studies reporting the development of cloned human embryos have used embryonic stem cells as th... first time, that SCNT can be utilized to generate cloned human blastocysts using differentiated adult donor...Carnegie donates landmark clones to biology
...ng cells and within the cell. Now with National Science Foundation funding, researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology have cloned genes to produce membrane proteins that may initiate the instructions for genes to turn on in the nucleus. They just donated 2010 of the clones for ge...Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona researchers first to clone mice in Spain
...t Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB) are the first to have cloned mice in Spain. Cloe, Cleo and Clona are three fema...ndation so as to induce embryonic development. The cloned embryos were later transferred to receptor females...B, in addition to being the first of their species cloned in Spain, are the first animals to survive at birt...Researchers engineer metabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity
...ts of the glyoxylate shunt on fatty acid metabolism in mammals, Liao's team cloned bacteria genes from Escherichia coli that would enable the shunt, then introduced the cloned E. coli genes into the mitochondria of liver cells in mice; mitochondria ...Regulation of cell proliferation by the OGF-OGFr axis is dependent on nuclear localization signals
... Behavioral Sciences. Drs. Zagon and McLaughlin discovered the growth related activity of endogenous opioids, identified OGF as the specific peptide, cloned and sequenced OGFr, and collaborated on demonstrating the remarkable properties of these native peptides in a variety of clinical studies. OGF has pr...Findings show insulin -- not genes -- linked to obesity
...ing a combination of imaging techniques to precisely compare fat storage in cloned cells having the same fat genes expressed. Single cell profiling allows ... processing among cells." The cell culture used in the research contains cloned mice fibroblast cells. "This particular type of cell culture has been us...Altered gene can increase risk of schizophrenia
... short list of three, which greatly simplified this next step." Each of the three candidate SNPs was introduced into separate cultures of identical cloned cells derived from human brain tissue. The cultures differed only in which of the SNP variants was introduced. The challenge was to measure the quanti...Stemagen First to Create Cloned Human Embryos From Adult Cells
Major Advancement Towards Creating Patient-Specific and Disease-Specific Stem Cells For Therapeutic Use LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Stemagen, a privately held embryonic stem cell research company, announced today it has become the first in the world to create,...Start Licensing, Inc. Welcomes FDA's Finding of Safety of Food From Cloned Animals
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Start Licensing, Inc. ("Start"), a joint venture of Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:) and Exeter Life Sciences supports the final risk assessment released by the US Food and Drug Administration on January 15. The assessment concluded that meat and da...Top U.S. Cloning Companies Announce New System to Track Cloned Livestock
Program that Allows Accurate Marketing Claims Designed with Input from Entire Food Chain WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's leading livestock cloning companies announced today a tracking program using a supply chain management system that will allow food companies to identify...Biologist who cloned Dolly the sheep believes therapeutic cloning will gain acceptance
Madison, Wis. - Ian Wilmut doesn't shy away from the term cloning, even with the controversial ethical connotations that come with it, but he believes in time the technique he developed to create Dolly the sheep will gain more public acceptance in the development of human therapies, just as human...Low Abundance cDNA Cloned Using Stratagenes Human Universal cDNA Library
A time-saving alternative to conventional library plating and screening Anuradha Mehta Donna Driscoll Department of Cell Biolo...Repair Stem Cell Institute Warns About Real Cost of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
...can easily replace the need for ESC. "The potential of iPS is so big," Margolis said, "that even Dr. Ian Wilmut, who led the team that cloned the famous Dolly the sheep, abandoned his license to attempt human cloning, stating that researchers 'may have achieved what no politician could: an e...APAgene Genome Walking Kit from Bio S&T
Description:...it. The Genome Walking Kit can be used for gap filling, localized cloning of genomic DNA, isolating promoter and regulatory sequences corresponding to cloned cDNAs, 5 and 3 RACE of first-strand cDNAs, identifying intron/exon junctions....PinPoint™ Vector Sequencing Primer from Promega
Description:...PinPoint™ Vector Sequencing Primer is designed for sequencing inserts cloned into the PinPoint™ Xa Vectors (Cat.# V2031, V2051, V2061). The primer...of the multiple cloning region and can be used to determine if an insert is cloned in-frame with the biotinylation purification tag of the PinPoint™ Xa ...Kilo Sequencing Deletion Kit from Takara Mirus Bio
Description:... The Deletion Kit for Kilo-Sequencing is designed to aid sequence analysis of long DNA fragments cloned into the multiple cloning sites (MCS) of M13 phage vectors (mp18/19) or pUC-related plasmid or phagemid vectors (pUC18/19). The kit is used to create ...EZ-Tn5 Plasmid-Based Deletion Machine from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies
Description:...yshin and Reznikoff, and by York et al. for generation of nested families of deletions and inversions by intramolecular transposition into DNA targets cloned in a transposon-containing plasmid vector. Although most researchers will be interested in using the system primarily for generating deletions, about ...Lambda GT11 Forward DNA Sequencing Primer from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies
Description:... These primers are designed for sequencing inserts cloned into M13/pUC-based plasmids, plasmids containing the SP6, T7, or T3 RNA polymerase promoters, or lambda gt10 and gt11 vectors. They are supplied at a ...