EU consumers may already be eating meat and dairy products from cloned animals, despite calls for a ban to prevent them entering the European food chain. (meatfreemondays.com)
To see what might go wrong with the telomeres of cloned animals between cell fusion and maturity, a team led by Lenhard Rudolph of the Hannover School of Medicine and Heiner Niemann of the Institute for Animal Science at Mariensee, Germany, tracked the length of telomeres during development. (sciencemag.org)
In a press statement, Wilmut points out that there's no way to tell whether Dolly's arthritis is a result of her clone status and says that her debility should remind researchers to keep an eye out for health problems in cloned animals as they age. (sciencemag.org)