Beagle puppy Ruby Puppy, or Ruppy for short, is the world’s first transgenic dog. Transgenic means that she has genes from another animal. Ruppy, and four other beagle puppies, were given a florescent gene from a sea anenome which makes her glow red under ultraviolet light.
Ruppy and her sisters are all identical clones of each [...]
Tags: cloning, fertility treatments, glow in the dark, infertility, puppies, transgenics
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Dr. Severino Antinori came forward on Tuesday to announce that he had cloned three children. He didn’t offer any proof. He did not disclose the identity of any of the children. However, he did give their ages and gender. “It involved two boys and a girl who are nine years old today,” said the doctor. [...]
Tags: cloning, invitro fertilization, nuclear transfer, Oggi, Severino Antinori
Posted in: Baby, News
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Last July 25, Louise Brown, turned 30. The day was marked as a major milestone in science and medicine. You see, Louise is the first test tube baby ? the first ever person born through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Assisted reproduction technology (ART) has come a long way since 1978. Women of menopausal age can [...]
Tags: assisted reproduction, cloning, genetic banking, IVF, Louise Brown, preimplantation screening, reproductive medicine, surrogacy
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Cloned meat may soon be in your grocery stores. According to the Wall Street Journal, as early as next week, the FDA may give word that food products from cloned animals are okie dokie for human consumption.
Cloning companies are cheering, consumer groups and the European Union are booing and the cows, well the cows are [...]
Tags: cloned meat, cloning, FDA
Posted in: Health
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