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Post by artemis on Feb 16, 2013 6:17:50 GMT -5
"Brooklyn Decker as a Brunette" or new clone in town
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Post by artemis on Feb 17, 2013 16:40:05 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Feb 19, 2013 5:09:55 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Feb 24, 2013 17:20:08 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Mar 9, 2013 5:28:15 GMT -5
"Immortal Line of Cloned Mice Created
Watch out, George Lucas, there's a new attack of the clones, and these ones are furry.
Japanese researchers have created a potentially endless line of mice cloned from other cloned mice. They used the same technique that created Dolly the sheep to produce 581 mice from an original donor mouse through 25 rounds of cloning, the scientists report in the March 7 issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell.
"This technique could be very useful for the large-scale production of superior-quality animals, for farming or conservation purposes," study leader Teruhiko Wakayama of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, said in a statement.
The researchers used a cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer, in which a cell nucleus containing one individual's genetic information is inserted into an egg cell whose nucleus has been removed. Dolly the Sheep became the first cloned mammal in 1996 using this technique. Many other animals have been cloned since, but the technique has had a low success rate and attempts to "reclone" animals have often failed.
Genetic abnormalities that can accumulate over consecutive generations of clones may explain these failures, Wakayama said. [That's Odd! The 10 Weirdest Animal Discoveries]
In their study, Wakayama and colleagues grew the cloned cells in a solution containing trichostatin, a compound that interferes with enzymes that make changes to DNA. Using this technique, the cloning process was five times more successful.
The team successfully cloned the mice 25 consecutive times. In other words, they cloned one mouse, then cloned those clones, and so on. A total of 581 healthy mice were made, all of which were fertile and lived a normal life span of about two years. The efficiency of making the cloned cells neither worsened nor improved over the generations.
"This is a very important set of results," geneticist George Church of Harvard Medical School told LiveScience. It's "not just that it's 25 sequential clonings, it's that they found a way to improve things five-fold," Church said. Figuring out what didn't work was equally important, he added.
No abnormalities accumulated in the mice, even after repeated cloning, the researchers found. "Our results show that repeated iterative recloning is possible and suggest that, with adequately ef?cient techniques, it may be possible to reclone animals inde?nitely," the authors wrote in the study.
In 2008, Wakayama's team created clones from the bodies of mice that had been frozen for 16 years. Other researchers have successfully recloned cows, pigs and cats, but not beyond three generations. Scientists have also created stem cells from cloned human embryos, but ethical and scientific barriers to human cloning remain."
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Post by artemis on Mar 9, 2013 5:31:47 GMT -5
These are some old news, but interesting nonetheless:
"Cloned Pigs Not Well
New studies find the immune systems of young cloned pigs do not fight disease as effectively as those of regular pigs.
The research was conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Missouri.
The scientists gave a naturally occurring toxin to seven young, cloned pigs and 11 genetically similar, non-cloned pigs. The cloned pigs' immune system did not produce sufficient quantities of natural proteins called cytokines, which fight infections.
As newborns, both the cloned and non-cloned pigs received some disease protection through their consumption of colostrum, a natural substance passed to a newborn pig via its mother's milk. The colostrum helps protect the young animal until its own immune system begins to function.
Cloned pigs, as well as cloned cows, have been known to have a higher-than-normal number of deaths around the time of birth. Many die from bacterial infections, the scientists said.
The cloned pigs are being used only for research purposes and won't be used for human consumption, the scientists noted."
"My Big Beef with Cloned Cattle
The meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to eat and should be allowed for sale, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
And you'll never know, anyway, because the labeling will be a clone of the labeling used for non-cloned beef. No special labeling is needed, the FDA says in an article published in the Jan. 1 issue of Theriogenology and in the full 678-page study posted on the FDA web site last week.
The less we know the better, apparently. Why else would the results of a four-year investigation in cloning safety be announced quietly between Christmas and New Year's?
Cloning dates back hundreds of days
On one level, we've allowed cloned beef to penetrate America for years. It's called McDonald's. While not technically cloned, all billion or so of the hamburger patties sold are indistinguishable from each other. This is our future.
On another level, you might have already eaten real cloned beef. Cloning livestock has been going on for five years now, and the FDA merely initiated a voluntary moratorium in 2003 on the commercial sale of the offspring of cloned animals. In this era of censorship and compromised priorities at the CDC, EPA and NASA, the FDA didn't have the teeth to make the sale of cloned animal products illegal.
Cloning advocates are already painting us concerned consumers as Luddites, with minds too feeble to comprehend that cloning is just an extension of animal husbandry practices that have taken place for centuries. This is a natural progression, they say, like feeding herbivorous cattle the ground-up remains of other animals, which somehow brought about mad cow disease.
As safe as cloned mother's milk
Are cloned animal products safe? Probably, but that's not the whole issue. Cloned cattle would be a chip off the old chipped beef, genetically identical to the progenitors. Scientists take the DNA of a prized bull or dairy cow and insert this into a hollowed-out nearly microscopic cattle egg. An electrical shock, eerily familiar to Frankenstein, induces the egg to grow.
Issue one is long-term human safety. While the practice is likely safe, only a few years have passed since the dawn of cloning to truly understand the impact this would have on millions of livestock consumed by hundreds of millions of people.
Issue two is the long-term viability of the food supply. Nature likes diversity; this is why most animals reproduce sexually. A disease can more easily wipe out an entire herd if each animal is genetically identical.
Issue three is the appalling secrecy. Consumers have the right to know whether their food product was raised in a matter that is acceptable to them. Of course the biggest producers don't want the FDA to require special labeling. The majority of consumers are queasy with the idea of cloning animals, as revealed in a recent poll by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology.
Issue four is the necessity. Why do we need to clone livestock? It's because big business, the face of American farming practices, demands identical products for mass production. And these identical slabs of meat line the meat sections of identical supermarkets from Albuquerque to Yonkers.
Uncertain future
Butchers have almost entirely disappeared from America. Gone is the day of specialty cuts and regional flavors. Instead, four meatpacking companies slaughter and package about 85 percent of all beef in the United States, according to the USDA. Supermarkets merely hire a few meat-cutters to trim the nearly finished product.
The biggest meat producers will likely require their suppliers to provide a genetically perfected product, which only the largest suppliers could afford to do. Once again, the little guy is marginalized. Already I am unable to buy many of the meat products I grew up with in my Italian neighborhood, like sweetbreads. Small farmers are barred by law from slaughtering their own animals; and the overtaxed slaughterhouses will only return certain cuts.
Such is the diversity of the American food supply system. Cloning will bring more of the same. We have until April 2 to complain to the FDA about this. Then the FDA will make its final decision."
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Post by artemis on Mar 14, 2013 7:57:35 GMT -5
Make-up free VS make-up on. Actually 2 different clones AND AN 18 YEARS OLD ONE....
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Post by artemis on Mar 19, 2013 5:46:35 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Mar 21, 2013 16:49:40 GMT -5
FINDSAY FOHAN clones mugshots October 2011 A few days ago
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Post by artemis on Apr 2, 2013 5:01:57 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Apr 10, 2013 6:05:22 GMT -5
FUCY FIU'S
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Post by beatlies on Apr 10, 2013 21:53:24 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Apr 13, 2013 5:09:14 GMT -5
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Post by beatlies on Apr 13, 2013 18:08:33 GMT -5
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/13/first-woman-with-womb-transplant-pregnant_n_3076684.html?ref=topbarFrom which woman or girl did they excise the womb for transplant into the abdomen of Derya Sert? Derya Sert, First Woman To Receive Womb Transplant, May Be Pregnant 04/12/13 10:20 AM ET EDT AP Share on Google+ Derya Sert Womb Transplant 92 3 0 9 49 Get Parents Alerts: Sign Up Follow: Derya Sert, Born Without Womb, Donor Uterus, Global Motherhood, In Vitro Fertilization, Ivf, Jnj-Global-Motherhood, Miracle Baby, Pregnancy, Rare Surgery, Turkish Woman With Womb Transplant, Uterus Transplant, Womb Transplant, Parents News ANKARA, Turkey -- A hospital says a Turkish woman who became the first person to successfully receive the uterus of a dead donor may now be pregnant. Derya Sert, 22, was born without a womb and had one transplanted in August 2011. Specialists at Akdeniz University Hospital placed an embryo into Sert's womb earlier this week in hopes she will become the first woman with a uterus transplant to give birth. Hospital spokeswoman Fusun Bas said Friday that early test results were "consistent with the expected signs of pregnancy" but cautioned that it is too early to declare Sert pregnant. A successful pregnancy and birth would provide hope for women who were born without a womb or lost a uterus to cancer or other diseases. Earlier on HuffPost: Miracle Babies 1 of 11 WANE FOLLOW PARENTS Like 75k Get Alerts by Taboola Woman Dies of Cancer After Getting Lung Transplant from Smoker Super Size Baby Born in Colombia Baby Born With Heart Outside Body Heads Home Pregnant Woman Gunned Dow
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Post by artemis on Apr 13, 2013 18:40:45 GMT -5
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