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Stem-cell cloner acknowledges errors in groundbreaking paper

A blockbuster paper that reported the creation of human stem cell lines via cloning has come under fire. An anonymous online commenter found four problems in the paper, which was published online 15 May in the journal Cell. (Nature)

Factors influencing the efficiency of generating genetically engineered pigs by nuclear transfer: multi-factorial analysis of a large data set

Background: Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) using genetically engineered donor cells is currently the most widely used strategy to generate tailored pig models for biomedical research. Although this approach facilitates a similar spectrum of gen...

Human embryonic stem cells created via cloning

Embryonic stem cells have been created from human skin cells for the first time by US scientists using a cloning technique...

New Release of Accelrys Electronic Lab Notebook Transforms Laboratory Operations

SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, has announced the latest release of the Accelrys Electronic Lab Notebook (AELN), which now offers extensive integration with the unifying, scientifically aware Accelrys Enterprise Platform (AEP). Expanded integration with AEP supports the management...

Scientists Take Step Toward Human Cloning

Scientists have used cloning technology to transform human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, an experiment that may revive the controversy over human cloning. These cloned cells can be used to create fresh tissue in the lab to repair damage done...

Almac and UCL establish metagenomics and enzyme discovery programme

Almac’s biocatalysis group has secured a UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council programme with University College London focused specifically on metagenomics and novel enzyme discovery. This R&D work will be carried out joint...

Stem Cell Action Coalition Applauds Cloned Stem Cell Breakthrough

The Stem Cell Action Coalition, a network of 75 nonprofit disease advocacy groups, scientific societies and academic centers, applauds the researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University for their groundbreaking accomplishment of producing stem cells utilizing the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). “The creation of c...

Controversy Lurks As Cloning Technique Yields Embryos With Eye On Stem Cell Therapies

Political and ethical fights over human cloning may follow the latest stem cell therapy advance after scientists created embryos that are genetic copies of living people in an effort to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's. Los Angeles Times: For First Time, Stem Cells Are Produced From Cloning Technique For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living peop...

Controversy Lurks As Cloning Technique Yields Embryos For Use In Stem Cell Therapies

Political and ethical fights over human cloning may follow the latest stem cell therapy advance after scientists created embryos that are genetic copies of living people in an effort to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's. Los Angeles Times: For First Time, Stem Cells Are Produced From Cloning Technique For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living peop...

Researchers Successfully Convert Human Skin Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells

[WATCH VIDEO: Contracting Cardiomyocystes] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OSHU) and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells capable of transforming into any other cell type in the body, a breakthrough that marks the first tim...

First Edition: May 16, 2013

Today's headlines detail the Senate confirmation of Acting Chief Marilyn Tavenner to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.   Kaiser Health News: Senate Confirms Tavenner To Head CMS Kaiser Health News' Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jennifer Haberkorn of Politico Pro about the Senate's confirmation Wednesday of Marilyn Tavenner to head the Centers for Medicare...

Human embryo stem cells cloning breakthrough

"Human embryonic stem cells created from adult tissue for first time," The Guardian reports, while the Daily Mail's front page leads with the somewhat fanciful warning that new research raises the "spectre of cloned babies". These headlines are based on newly published research into the use of a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) as part of embryonic stem c...

Human Cloning Moves a Step Closer

Scientists used cloning technology to transform human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, moving a step closer toward human cloning.

Human Cloning Moves Step Closer

Scientists have used cloning technology to transform human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, an experiment that may revive the controversy over human cloning.

Cloning of Dirac fermions in graphene superlattices

Superlattices have attracted great interest because their use may make it possible to modify the spectra of two-dimensional electron systems and, ultimately, create materials with tailored electronic properties. In previous studies (see, for example,...

Experiment Brings Human Cloning One Step Closer

Scientists have used cloning technology to transform human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, an experiment that may revive the controversy over human cloning.

Human Cloning Produces Embryonic Stem Cells

A major breakthrough has just been achieved in stem cell research. Through human cloning, American scientists have effectively produced early embryos and used them as a source of stem cells with a procedure similar to the one that produced "Dolly the...

Human stem cells created by cloning

Breakthrough sets up showdown with induced adult lines.

Patient-Specific Human Embryonic Stem Cells Created by Cloning

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Ethicist: Cloning offers more cause for excitement than concern

It has finally happened – the technique used in 1996 to make Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal, has finally been used in 2013 to make the world’s first cloned human embryo. Despite a history in the years after Dolly of nuts, crackpots, frauds and charlatans …

Cloning technique produces human stem cells for the first time

Researchers say they have finally managed to use cloning technology to make human embryos and grow stem cells from them in the hopes of making perfectly matched grow-your-own tissue transplants. They used a human egg cell and parts of a human skin cell to grow a very early human …

Scientists create human stem cells through cloning

NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transpl...

Family Research Council Condemns Human Cloning in Oregon

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists in Oregon announced today that they had created cloned human embryos, and then destroyed the embryos to extract embryonic stem cells.  The cloning technique is essentially the same one used to create Dolly the cloned sheep, with some modifications to make cloning work using human eggs and human cells.  This is the first claim...

New Research Exploits Women and Commodifies Human Life

SAN RAMON, Calif., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Bioethics and Culture strongly decries the practice of deriving human embryonic stem cells through cloning because it exploits women for their eggs, it commodifies human life, and it is unnecessary. In the June 6, 2013, issue of the scientific journal Cell, researchers announce that they have successfully derived human embr...

Cardinal O'Malley: Human Cloning Inconsistent With Human Dignity, Treats People As Products

USCCB Pro-Life Chair Responds to Cloning Breakthrough in Oregon Says Creating Embryos To Destroy Them Objectionable to Non-Catholics Too Notes That Morally Acceptable Scientific Advances Already Addressing Same Goals WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Human cloning for any purpose is inconsistent with the moral responsibility to "treat each member of the human family as a...