Scientists Team Up To Clone Woolly Mammoth
The woolly mammoth may be on the comeback trail, thanks to a deal signed today between prominent Russian and South Korean scientists to collaborate on...
The woolly mammoth may be on the comeback trail, thanks to a deal signed today between prominent Russian and South Korean scientists to collaborate on...
S. Lochlann Jain | Posted 04.24.2012
The fetuses created by IVF will ideally become healthy people. But the IVF industry needs federal oversight to ensure that the children produced have the maximum chance of growing up to be healthy adults.
Mary J. Loftus | Posted 11.24.2011
The centrally important question under Jewish law would be: Have we produced another healthy or healthier child?
Joe Cristalli | Posted 07.11.2011
Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 06.14.2011
The number of dogs that have been cloned in the last six years is just a tiny fraction of the number of dogs that are bred and sold every day. But that's not why I won't clone my dog.
Steven Polansky | Posted 05.25.2011
It is not too soon to ask: What form or forms will the practice of human reproductive cloning take? What purposes will it serve; what needs will it satisfy?
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.17.2011
Whether you believe or not, most of us have thought about death, and "something" after our present life is better than a dark eternal gloom forever, sort of my present state of mind.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.17.2011
Cremation will soon overtake burial; it occurred to me a logical next step might be preservation of a small portion of the remains, just in case cloning someday becomes commonplace.
Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011
In Volume 1, Episode 17 of the Cinefantastique Podcast, Dan Persons Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski delve into the worlds of science fiction, fa...
Posted 05.25.2011
Rebecca Skloot, the author of the recently published "Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," talked to Stephen Colbert last night about the first person t...
Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011
It's quite sad to see people marshaling their faith in order to provide window dressing for a set of fears and hostilities which are about something altogether separate from faith.
Posted 05.25.2011
The woolly mammoth and saber-tooth tiger may only be the stuff of legend today, but that may not always be the case, according to recent research on t...
Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
Religious fervor has dwindled of late because religions have failed to keep pace with human knowledge. For faith to thrive, our concepts of God must adapt to our evolving scientific knowledge.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — Scientists in California say they have cloned a dog that helped with search-and-rescue after the New York terrorist attacks on Sep...
SA | Posted 05.25.2011
South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases....
AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 05.25.2011
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develo...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.25.2011
ISFAHAN, Iran — Iranian scientists have cloned a goat and plan future experiments they hope will lead to a treatment for stroke patients, the le...
Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011
The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday claimed its own version of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, after the birth of a cloned camel in ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A scientist says the world's first cloned camel has been produced in the desert emirate of Dubai. Nisar Ahmad Wani...
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011
The president has not explained precisely why he opposes reproductive cloning. Is his opposition solely based upon the health risks of cloning techniques, or on moral grounds?
Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011
With journalism migrating to the internet, it's important readers can trust what they read -- at the very least from companies like Ben & Jerry's that position themselves as concerned about our welfare.
environmentalgraffiti.com | Posted 05.25.2011
You don't know this, but your life is empty and missing something important. You need a woolly mammoth in the living room, and on a leash to take shop...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Bringing "Jurassic Park" one step closer to reality, scientists have deciphered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth, a f...
Isabel Cowles | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm not sure how comfortable you feel about eating an animal baby Frankenstein. If a man-made bovine doesn't frighten you, you'll likely find this art...
Newser.com | Posted 03.13.2012