Two decades after Scotland's Dolly the sheep became the first cloned mammal, consumers may well wonder whether they are drinking milk or eating meat from cookie-cutter cows or their offspring.
Biotechnology
Jul 4, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.
Engineering
Feb 15, 2012
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Jonathan Allen has good news and bad news for Australians regarding the crown-of-thorns sea star.
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2019
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The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday claimed its own version of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, after the birth of a cloned camel in Dubai this month.
Biotechnology
Apr 14, 2009
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Yeast is not the simple single-celled microorganism we once thought, but a competitive killer. When starved of glucose, yeast releases a toxin that will poison other microorganisms that have entered its surrounding habitat, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2022
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Xi-Jun Ren and Yang Xiang from Henan Universities in China, in collaboration with Heng Fan at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have produced a theory for a quantum cloning machine able to produce ...
General Physics
Nov 4, 2011
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A heroic pig who survived more than a month buried under rubble after the 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan province has been successfully cloned, according to a report Sunday.
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2011
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Scientists in the Indian state of Haryana have cloned a buffalo using foetal tissue, according to a report.
Biotechnology
Jun 7, 2009
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Scientists have many tools at their disposal to study, manipulate and copy genes.
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2019
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(Phys.org) —If Utah's quaking aspen appear to be quaking more than usual this summer, the trees have reason to tremble, says a Brigham Young University biologist. In dappled forests across the West, aspen trees are battling ...
Ecology
Jul 1, 2013
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