Sentences with phrase «to clone animals»

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.

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.

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.

The first widely - accepted successful use of SCNT came with the creation of the sheep Dolly in 1997, the first cloned animal from an adult cell and the first cloned mammal (Wilmut et al., 1997).

Since Dolly, a number of other cloned animals have been bred, including sheep, goats, cows, mice, pigs, cats, rabbits, and a gaur (an endangered species of Asian bison).

Some agricultural cloning is used in the U.S. and China to capitalize on the genes of a few extraordinary specimens, scientists say, but the European Parliament voted last year to ban cloning animals for food.

This type is not used for cloning animals as well as people.

Researchers working with clones of a Holstein cow say genetic programming errors may explain why so many cloned animals die, either as fetuses or newborns.

Most cloned animals end up pretty sickly — all that for a dog that isn't even an exact replica of the original.

Most cloned animals end up pretty sickly.

Defects among cloned animals include overly large fetuses, placental disorders and inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.

Dr Coleman says the research will need to be followed up on many more cloned animals.

Cloned animals tend to have compromised immune function and higher rates of infection, tumour growth, and other disorders.

Attempts to clone animals began more than 100 years ago, but it took seaweed jelly, salamanders and some strands of baby hair to make it work

Other cloned animals appear normal and healthy, for example the 24 calf clones created by US cloning company Advanced Cell Technology, but these have yet to live long enough to draw any conclusions.

Other researchers have previously cloned animals, including mammals, by transferring nuclei from embryonic cells into such enucleated eggs.

But like researchers who clone animals (see p. 85), plant scientists understand little about what actually controls the process.

The odds are that Dolly's genome came from a differentiated cell, but the quest for the best way to create cloned animals continues.

Michael Hansen, a senior scientist with Consumers Union, says that data supporting the FDA decision are based on just a few cloned animals and include little information about their offspring.

Although Dolly ignited an ethical debate about cloning animals, the practice has grown and gone commercial: South Korea's Sooam Biotech regularly clones pets for about $ 100,000.

Scientists clone an animal by taking an egg cell, removing its genetic material, and replacing it with the nucleus of a cell from the animal they wish to clone — in Dolly's case, a mammary cell from a 6 - year - old sheep.

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«Even if stem cells were ever to be produced, like cloned animals, they would have so many errors of their metabolism that they would produce completely misleading data.»

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The 100 - page investigation into GM and cloned animals called for an independent inquiry into the use of these animals in medical research, claiming that inadequate controls are causing untold suffering to these animals.

The government funded lab is focused on cloning animals that provide services to humans such as guide dogs or dogs that help in law enforcement agencies.

New regulations are on the way for organic food in Canada, where cloned animals will be excluded; and for genetic information in the U.S., where the EEOC started hearings to implement Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

There is also a higher rate of such abnormalities in cloned animals.

In September, 20 manufacturers, including Kraft Foods and General Mills, announced they would not use products from cloned animals.

Another area of controversy is the use of cloned animals and their descendants in food products, with concerns raised about food safety, animal welfare and ethical issues.

The three remaining dogs will also live their lives in the lab, being monitored and undergoing tests the scientist say they suspect will dispel the notion that cloned animals die early deaths.

Although defects occur at a higher rate among cloned animals than with other assisted reproductive technologies, FDA dismissed animal health concerns because the defects are not unique to cloning.

100 years ago no one could imagine we'd be doing such things (going to the moon, stem cell research, mapping DNA, cloning animals, etc.).

Indeed, the ability to clone animals, such as Dolly the sheep, by fusion of an adult cell to an enucleated oocyte demonstrates that the epigenetic programming responsible for maintaining an adult cell in a stable state can be erased by factors present in the cytoplasm of the oocyte.

The Food Standards Agency in the UK has confirmed that meat from a cloned animal has entered the British food chain and has been eaten.

Under the plan, the EC has suggested a ban on the cloning of farm animals within the bloc as well as the prohibition of imports of animal clones or food derived from cloned animals.

No GMO breeds are used, no cloned animals are used.

Although the first cloned animal - a tadpole - was created in 1952, the most publicly significant event in the history of cloning was the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996 at the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh.

Equally controversial was the Board's decision that mandatory labeling of meat and milk derived from descendants of cloned animals was» unnecessary and disproportionate», as was Defra's statement that such labeling would be «unenforceable and impracticable.»

Meat and milk from cloned animals are classed as «novel foods» under the EU Novel Foods Regulation 1997.

Cloning cattle is an agriculturally important technology and can be used to study mammalian development, but the success rate remains low, with typically fewer than 10 percent of the cloned animals surviving to birth.

But as many sheep live to twice this age, her death will refuel the intense debate over the health and life expectancy of cloned animals.

However, this research has shown that cloned animals can live long and healthy lives.

Tweaking steps in the cloning protocol could lead to success in other hard - to - clone animals, such as rats and monkeys.

Farmers can import semen or embryos from cloned animals, however, and milk and meat from the offspring of cloned animals has been sold in the United Kingdom without official authorization.