University of Georgia unveils technique to improve success rate of cattle cloning
...uccess rate of cattle cloning, and displayed eight cloned cattle ranging in age from two months to four mont...d for consistent, quality meat products. About 200 cloned embryos are produced in Stice's lab each day. Only 10 to 20 percent of those embryos make it through...University of Georgia unveils technique to improve success rate of cattle cloning
...uccess rate of cattle cloning, and displayed eight cloned cattle ranging in age from two months to four mont...d for consistent, quality meat products. About 200 cloned embryos are produced in Stice's lab each day. Only 10 to 20 percent of those embryos make it through...Scientists share multidisciplinary discoveries at 'Earth System Processes'
...ess whereby even tiny sequences of a genome can be cloned and amplified, was discovered in a Yellowstone hot spring," Farmer explained. "This discovery revolutionized molecular biology and spawned a multi-billion dollar industry." Franco Piranjo (Geological Survey of Western Australia) will present an overv...Secret channel holds key to metabolic mysteries
Researchers use cloned gene to reveal how cells transmit vital elements ...(BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston cloned a particular gene while supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Profession...LSU researchers find cause of respiratory diseases in cattle
...ce the samples from the cattle were applied to the cloned cell cultures, Storz observed the coronavirus. The respiratory coronavirus infects cells that line the upper and lower respiratory tracts, including the lungs. Storz said the coronavirus kills the cells and causes inflammation in the mucous-memb...New molecular key to disposal of dying cells
...cer Center led by director H. Shelton Earp III, MD cloned human and mouse Mer in 1995. This achievement led to their development of a Mer knockout mouse, a strain of mice defective in Mer function, which would provide insights to the function of Mer. UNC researchers have been studying the role of Mer in ...Scientists track down the root of cloning problems
... offspring syndrome, result in only 1-5 percent of cloned animals surviving to adulthood. The reasons for these complications have remained a mystery and raised considerable concerns about the cloning process. The Jaenisch lab found that the genetic background of the donated nucleus influences clone ...BresaGen announces Australia's first cloned pig
...akthrough in cloning technology. Australia's first cloned pig is now five weeks old, has been weaned andis h... compatible forhuman transplantation." The pig was cloned from cells which had been frozen in liquid nitrogenfor more than two years. This makes the technolo...Researchers use cloning technology to produce embryonic stem cell lines from adult mice
...ry dish. Nuclear transfer (nt) was used to produce cloned blastocysts from which the ES cell lines were derived, and these lines are called ntES cell lines. When placed into another embryo, the ntES cells differentiated in the body of the resulting mouse to all somatic cell types, as well as gametes (sperm ...Northwestern receives $17 million for functional genomics research
...ct," said center director Joseph S. Takahashi, who cloned the first mammalian circadian gene, Clock, in 1997. "Our work will be very complementary and synergistic with the information being produced by the Human Genome Project." The Northwestern center is one of three such centers in the country. Researcher...Scientists unlock molecular mechanism that controls cell growth
...ls the growth state of a cell," said Morimoto, who cloned Hsp70 in 1985 and has been studying Bag1 for four years. To assess the relationship between Hsp70 and Bag1, Morimotos team used mutants of the two proteins. Their results showed that Bag1 mutants defective in binding to Hsp70 stimulated Raf-1 and the......cinoma Specific T Cells, or SPAS-1. Having already cloned the gene, he and his colleagues now are looking in other survivor mice for further antigens that could serve as targets for vaccines. "This is the first mouse we've looked at, so we have lots more work to do both in prostate and other kinds of cancer......and colleagues from the University of Arizona have cloned and characterized one of the key factors regulating a plants response to cold temperatures. This factor, HOS-1, is the first protein of its type to be identified in cold signal transduction in any organism. Plants have evolved a set of specialized co...LSU veterinarians deliver cloned calves by caesarian section
...A team of LSU veterinarians recently delivered two cloned calves by caesarean section at the university's Sc...as born the following Tuesday. The calves were cloned by Cyagra Inc. of Manhattan, Kan., under a trial procedure Cyagra is filing as a new patent. The co...Georgetown University researchers discover new paradigm in cellular communication
...hosphate, called sphingosine kinasewhich was first cloned and characterized in the lead authors laboratory at Georgetownplays a critical role in this process. Our work has revealed a completely new paradigm for communication between two different cellular receptors that is critical for cell motility, said S...Enzyme is key to hallmark of Alzheimer's-- moves to block it underway
... Borschelt, Ph.D. In 1999, five research groups cloned genes for various forms of beta-secretase, but the Hopkins scientists are the first to show that one form of the enzyme (called BACE 1) is key in producing the molecules within the brain's nerve cells that become plaque. In their mouse study, sc...Plants as plants: gene could convert crops to plastics factories
...University, and Knut Meyer of DuPont and Co., have cloned a gene from the common laboratory plant Arabadopsi...chemical processes going on in the plant. Weve now cloned a gene that produces an enzyme that is in involved in conjugating these compounds in plants, Chapple...Scientists discover "missing link" between rare disease and inherited forms of breast cancer
...rtland, Ore., report that they have identified and cloned that sixth gene, dubbed FANCD2. In the second paper, the groups demonstrate that, once activated, FANCD2 gives rise to a protein that switches on BRCA1. "FANCD2 turns out to be the missing link between the Fanconi anemia enzyme and the switching o...Researchers discover weight-loss compound that doesnt affect food intake
...ive years ago, researchers from Harvey Lodishs lab cloned a protein secreted only by fat cells. Called Acrp30, this protein was suspected to be a hormone, but not much was known about its function. The protein was patented by Whitehead Institute and licensed to Genset in 1999. Over the past year, researc......enon. A transgenic mouse, one whose DNA included a cloned human gene, would over-express the oncogene continually, not just later in life. Instead, they created a strain of mice that would express human MYC on demand. By mating transgenic MYC mice with a strain of mice that would turn genes on in the presen...