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1996: DOLLY WAS START OF CLONING. "The first hybrid human clone was created in November 1998, by Advanced Cell Technology. It was created using SCNT - a nucleus was taken from a man's leg cell and inserted into a (denucleated) cow's egg ... and the hybrid cell was cultured, and developed into an embryo. The embryo was destroyed after 12 days." http://lnkd.in/dXWf2pk View in LinkedIn

SOMATIC-CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER (SCNT) "is a laboratory technique for creating a clone embryo with a donor somatic nucleus ... It can be used in embryonic stem cell research ... in regenerative medicine where it is sometimes referred to as "therapeutic cloning". It can also be used as the first step in the process of reproductive cloning." http://lnkd.in/dsWWRQb View in LinkedIn

STEM CELL RETRACTION. "Haruko Obokata, the Japanese scientist at the centre of a controversy over studies purporting to turn mature cells to stem cells simply by bathing them in acid ... today apologized for her errors in the work. She insisted that the “stimulus-triggered activation pluripotency” ... exists." http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/04/acid-bath-stem-cell-scientist-apologizes-and-appeals.html View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION OF HUMAN CLONING "is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue, and is not in medical practice anywhere in the world. It does not refer to the natural conception and delivery of identical twins." http://lnkd.in/dXWf2pk View in LinkedIn

FAKE CLONING CLAIMS. "Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced cloning expert from South Korea who had claimed major breakthroughs in stem-cell research, was convicted Monday of falsifying his papers and embezzling government research funds." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/world/asia/27clone.html?ref=hwangwoosuk View in LinkedIn

KOREAN CLONING FACILITY. "Ten years ago, Woo Suk Hwang rose to the top of his field before fraud and dodgy bioethical practices derailed his career. Hwang opened Sooam in July 2006. He has since cloned hundreds of animals — dogs, cows, pigs and coyotes. They have joined forces to try to clone a mammoth from ancient tissue dug from permafrost." http://lnkd.in/dg6_kYA View in LinkedIn

HUMAN CLONING BENEFITS. "Embryonic stem cells can be grown to produce organs or tissues to repair or replace damaged ones. Skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, spinal cord cells for quadriplegics and paraplegics, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys could be produced." Plus treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, and other diseases. http://www.humancloning.org/benefits.html View in LinkedIn

CHINESE CLONING LEADERSHIP: "the world's biggest and possibly first “cloning factory,” but also the world’s largest center for gene sequencing ... BGI has plans to sequence the genomes of a million people, a million animals, and a million plants, which is an ambitious task considering other genome projects." http://lnkd.in/dVVhTRV View in LinkedIn

CLONED HUMAN CELLS. "In the 18 years since researchers cloned a sheep, scientists have found another way to produce cloned human cell lines. And the other technique, which produces "induced pluripotent stem cells," skips the step that requires a human egg cell, so some people find it less fraught, ethically." http://lnkd.in/dPWi6p5 View in LinkedIn

CHINESE CLONING FACTORY. "This place produces an astonishing 500 cloned pigs a year: China is exploiting science on an industrial scale. Run by a fast-growing company called BGI, this facility has become the world's largest centre for the cloning of pigs." http://lnkd.in/d7sKrry View in LinkedIn