News articles tagged with 'cloning'
MSU researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods
— 31 Aug 2009 13:21 | BiologyA team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a new, more efficient way of cloning zebra fish, a breakthrough that could have implications for human health research... — full story
Researchers look to imprinted genes for clues to foetal growth restriction in cloned swine
— 20 Jul 2009 21:22 | HealthResearchers at North Carolina State University have found that intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), which results in low birth weight and long-term deleterious health effects in... — full story
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona researchers first to clone mice in Spain
— 12 Jun 2009 17:05 | BiologyResearchers at the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) are the first to have cloned mice in Spain. Cloe, Cleo and Clona... — full story
Closing the gaps in the human genome
— 3 Jun 2009 17:50 | BiologySequence gaps in human chromosome 15 have been closed by the application of 454 technology. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology have described... — full story
Therapeutic cloning gets a boost with new research findings
— 25 Mar 2009 13:30 | HealthGerm cells, the cells which give rise to a mammal's sperm or eggs, exhibit a five to ten-fold lower rate of spontaneous point mutations than adult somatic cells, which give rise to... — full story
Evolution of fruit size in tomato
— 30 Jun 2008 16:50 | BiologyDomesticated tomatoes can be up to 1000 times larger than their wild relatives. How did they get so big? In general, domesticated food plants have larger fruits, heads of grain, tubers,... — full story
Research shows therapeutic cloning can be used to treat Parkinson's disease in mice
— 23 Mar 2008 18:00 | HealthResearch led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC) has shown that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), can be used to... — full story
Sand dollar larvae use cloning to 'make change,' confound predators
— 16 Mar 2008 10:32 | BiologyNature is full of examples of creatures that try to look as big as possible in an effort to scare away potential predators. But to avoid being eaten alive the larvae of sand dollars... — full story
DFG remains sceptical of the cloning of human cells
— 23 Jan 2008 10:16 | BiologyAccording to a paper published in the journal Stem Cells, an American group has succeeded in inserting cell nuclei from human skin cells into human enucleated oocytes and to stimulate... — full story
Oosight microscope enables embryonic stem cell breakthrough
— 2 Dec 2007 20:44 | BiologyA noninvasive, polarised light microscope invented at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) played a crucial role in a recent breakthrough in embryonic stem-cell research aimed at... — full story
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