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Scientists have cloned two black-footed ferrets from frozen DNA tissue taken from another ferret in 1988. Researchers hope to breed from the cloned ferrets when they reach maturity later this year.
The history of biotechnology shows how humans have been manipulating nature for our benefit for a long time—and how modern genetic engineering is
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND (WHTM) — It was an achievement that many scientists believed was impossible. On Feb. 22, 1997, a scientific team headed by Professor Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, introduced Dolly the Cloned Sheep to the world. The misconceptions, misconstruals, misinterpretations, misapprehensions, and misoneisms started almost immediately. A […]
Martine Rothblatt sees a day when transplantable organs and 3D-printed ones will be readily available, saving countless lives—including her daughter’s.