Cloning

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Scientists Clone 600 Mice from Single Drop of Blood

Since mice aren’t really a nuisance to anyone…600 copies of a single mouse have been created from a single drop of the donor mouse’s blood. Taking the blood from the tail of a donor mouse, a team of scientists in Japan isolated the white bl

Clone / Clones / Cloning

Who Needs DNA to Bring Back the T-Rex?

New research from scientists presenting in Proceedings of the Royal Society has put a damper on getting viable DNA from samples older than 8.5 million years. In studying fossilized moa bones, they discovered a half-life for DNA of about 521

Cloning / Dinosaur

Woman Grows Ear on Her Arm to Replace Her Missing Ear!

We’ve seen tissues and body parts grown in petri dishes before. Nothing new, right? Now we’ve seen a human being’s own body used as a petri dish to grow a body part for her own body! Sherrie Walters, a woman from Baltimore, has become that

Biology / Cancer / Cloning

Japanese Scientists Grow Crude Liver in a Dish!

Something straight out of a science fiction story is becoming a reality in Yokohama, Japan right now: regenerative organs. There have been tons of attempts, theories and even a small handful of groundbreaking work concerning regenerating ne

Biology / Cloning / Japan

Dr. Ian Malcolm Is Pissed: All-Female Lizard Species Created In Lab

Henry Wu: You’re implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will… breed? Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I’m simply saying that life, uh… finds a way. Scientists looking to create a species of all-female lizards have finally succeeded.

Animals / Cloning / Jurassic Park