HorsetalkIt will have its own stem cell bank. Mariën, of Equitom, is well known in Belgium for his successful efforts to save the foal Kastelino, who was found in his field in Beverlo last August with severe injuries. The clinic will be opened next week, and … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Team clones stem cells from 75-year-old’s skinNewsOK.comThe team, at Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology and the Institute for Stem Cell Research in Los Angeles, say they used the cloning methods to create the stem cells to match a 35-year-old man and a 75-year-old man. They used a bit of skin from … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Stem Cells Breakthrough Provides new HopeGuardian Liberty Voicestem cells Scientists at the Research Institute for Stem Cell Research in Los Angeles have provided new hope in a breakthrough stem cell research paper published last Thursday. The new study documents the successful duplication of adult stem cells … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
College diversity questionnaire sparks controversyCBS NewsEighteen years ago, scientists took DNA from a sheep and transferred it into the egg of another and then grew it in an embryo and transplanted into a third sheep – and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult stem cell, “Dolly” the sheep was born. …read more &nbs… Continue reading
The World’s First Stem Cells that ‘Stem’ from AdultsNature World NewsThe breakthrough, published online in the journal Cell Stem Cell, describes this “therapeutic cloning” of a 35-year-old man and 75-year-old man. Technically called somatic-cell nuclear transfer, the process involves taking the DNA from a donor and … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
New procedure clones stem cells from adultsWest Hawaii TodayScientists have grown stem cells from adults using cloning techniques for the first time — bringing them closer to developing patient-specific lines of cells that can be used to treat a whole host of ailments, from heart disease to blindness. The … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
LifeNews.comFor years Massachusetts company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) has been trying to clone human embryos. They have been working with somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same technique that cloned Dolly the sheep, in vain attempts to get cloned … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Los Angeles TimesThe work, reported Thursday in the journal Cell Stem Cell, comes 11 months after researchers in Oregon said they had produced the world’s first human embryo clones and used them to make stem cells. Their study, published in Cell, aroused skepticism …Cloning advance using stem cells from human adult reopens ethical questionsWashington PostFirst … Continue reading