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...
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...
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...
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...
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....