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Clones start and win

An Argentine team on cloned horses won a prestigious polo match. The cloning was led by Katrin Hinrichs, a veterinarian from Texas A&M University.

14.12.2016
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Cloned dogs: 2005-20016

In the spring of 2005, Snoopy, a puppy of the Afghan hound breed, was born at Seoul National University. By May 20016, Sooam Biotech Research had cloned more than 700 dogs.

15.11.2016
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Resurrect the northern penguin?

The wingless loon, the only modern representative of the genus Pinguinus, nested 200 years ago on the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Greenland, parts of Spain and New England.

30.08.2016
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Dolly v.2: elderly, but healthy

Clones obtained from the same cell line as Dolly, aged 8 years (60-80 by human standards), are quite healthy animals. There are no signs of premature aging in sheep.

22.08.2016
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Here's a sheep!

If Wilmut and Campbell were not pioneers in cell nucleus transplantation, and Dolly was the first cloned creature, why did they get worldwide fame?

05.07.2016
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5 myths about cloning

Popular ideas of people about reproductive cloning: the creation of an exact copy of a person, the destruction of genetic diversity and other common myths about cloning.

01.07.2016
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Homo synthetical

As part of the HGP-Write: Testing Large Synthetic Genomes in Cells project, scientists hope to develop tools that will push synthetic biology to exponential growth on an industrial scale.

26.05.2016
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Cloned tumors

Two students from the University of North Dakota have come up with a system for cloning tumors that will help select drugs for the individual treatment of cancer patients.

28.04.2016
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The cloned Boxer

The main difference between the "copies" of Dylan is that the genetic material for their cultivation was collected not immediately after the death of the boxer, but 12 days after the heart attack and death.

24.12.2015
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A woolly elephant is being blown out of a fly again

One of the unique finds for the study of ancient animals was the mammoth skin. Korean colleagues of NEFU scientists believe that it is the skin that is the best material for cloning attempts by isolating viable cells.

08.10.2015
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Cloned beta cells of a diabetic patient

Having transplanted genetic material from skin cells of a patient with type I diabetes into someone else's egg, scientists obtained a culture of embryonic cells, which were then "re-educated" into insulin cells of the pancreas.

30.04.2014
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For the first time: therapeutic cloning of adult cells

For the first time, scientists were able to apply the method of transferring somatic cell nuclei (therapeutic cloning) to adult cells and grow stem cells close to embryonic cells that are genetically identical to DNA donors.

22.04.2014
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Hundreds of clones per year

The Chinese company BGI, engaged in genetic modification and cloning of pigs, has become one of the largest in this field. During the year, the organization's specialists produce several hundred clones of these animals.

16.01.2014
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Cloning stars: the DNA collection is being replenished

The Canadian dentist's collection already has tissue samples with the DNA of Marilyn Monroe, Justin Bieber and Paul McCartney. He recently bought a John Lennon tooth and hopes to clone it someday.

21.08.2013
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Cloning a mammoth: an optimist's opinion

After the recent discovery of the carcass of an adult female mammoth, the extinct animal may still be cloned. Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Mammoth Museum, talks about the prospects of such a project.

06.06.2013
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Mitalipov is not going to clone a person

Human embryonic stem cells were obtained for the first time by the method of somatic cell nuclei transfer. But this method, commonly called therapeutic cloning, is unlikely to produce human clones.

20.05.2013