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EC OPPOSED CLONED FOOD. "Nevertheless, the European Commission drafted three laws in December 2013 proposing bans on: cloning techniques for farm animals in the European Union, the import of animal clones and the marketing of food from animal clones. It is estimated that the draft legislation chain of approval will be completed, at the earliest, in 2016." http://feedstuffsfoodlink.com/story-china-scales-cloning-animals-0-107792 View in LinkedIn

MEAT FROM PROGENY OF CLONED ANIMALS "will continue to be sold without labels in Britain after the European Commission refused to end the practice. Shoppers in the UK have been unknowingly eating meat sourced from the young of animals whose DNA has been altered for the past two years despite calls for it to be clearly labelled." http://lnkd.in/dxNA32E View in LinkedIn

2006: FDA OKs CLONED FOOD. "After more than five years of study, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that cloned livestock is “virtually indistinguishable” from conventional livestock. FDA believes “that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day." http://lnkd.in/dDwvPjz View in LinkedIn

CLONING ENTIRE MOUSE FROM STEM CELLS. "You can create an entire mouse from IPS cells. This has been done. They have used IPS cells to grow a mouse, and they made IPS cells from that mouse. They’re totipotent ... not merely pluripotent. We haven’t done this for humans for obvious ethical reasons, but we will do it." http://lnkd.in/dWBcA_p View in LinkedIn

CLONING HUMAN BANS. "But therapeutic cloning raises ethical questions. In 2005, The United Nations ?.. adopted a non-binding declaration that called for the ban of human cloning on the grounds of dignity. And the United States government has restricted the use of federal funds for research into therapeutic or reproductive cloning." http://lnkd.in/d3BjhdD View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTIVE VS THERAPEUTIC CLONING. "But nuclear transfer is also the first step in reproductive cloning, or producing a genetic duplicate of someone ... In 2005, the United Nations called on countries to ban it, and the United States prohibits the use of federal funds for either reproductive or therapeutic cloning." http://lnkd.in/dP5GBQj View in LinkedIn

UK CONSUMERS WANT TRANSPARENCY ON PROVENANCE OF FOOD (2011). "Food from the offspring of cloned animals, including meat and milk, has been approved for sale without labels. The Food Standards Agency yesterday tore up proposals that would have required it to go through a safety assessment. It comes despite research showing eight in ten shoppers oppose the cloning of farm livestock." http://lnkd.in/dHgDQWd View in LinkedIn

CHURCH'S THREE CHOICES FOR STEM CELLS, "stem cells in bone marrow ... They are easy to use and to get to work when you implant them in bone marrow. You might one day have three choices. You can have bone marrow from someone else that is matched to you, or that is from you, or bone marrow that is matched to you and comes to you, but is better than you." http://lnkd.in/dWBcA_p View in LinkedIn

EXTENT OF THE UK CLONED MEAT CASES. "At least 100 clone offspring cattle are being reared on farms in this country. Most are at Newmeadow Holsteins, a dairy herd based at Nairn, North-East Scotland. But Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, the Co-op, Marks & Spencer and Waitrose have responded to customer concerns ..." http://lnkd.in/duWPR4r View in LinkedIn

iPS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY. "The growing number of human disease models made with patient-specific iPSCs has made it possible to conduct research on a wide range of disorders, including rare diseases and those with multifactorial origin, as well as to simulate drug effects on difficult-to-obtain tissues such as brain and cardiac muscle." http://stemcellstm.alphamedpress.org/content/early/2014/01/31/sctm.2013-0162.abstract View in LinkedIn