| January 18, 2008 | - Researchers in San Diego announced that they had cloned
human embryos from skin cells.
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New York Times
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| January 15, 2008 | - The FDA determined that cloned animals are acceptable food.
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BBC News
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| November 24, 2005 | - In South Korea
geneticist Hwang Woo-suk, who cloned an Afghan hound named Snuppy, resigned as chairman of the World Stem Cell Hub after it was discovered that he had used the eggs of women from his research team in experiments. “We needed a lot of ova for the research,” he explained, “but there were not enough ova around.”
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BBC News
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| August 3, 2005 | - In South Korea, scientists cloned an Afghan hound. The clone is named Snuppy, for Seoul National University Puppy.
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AP
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| May 15, 2005 | -
Australian researchers were working to clone the extinct Tasmanian tiger.
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IOL.co.za
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| April 12, 2005 | -
American and Japanese scientists proclaimed cloned
cattle safe to eat.
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BBC News
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| March 9, 2005 | - The United Nations gave up trying to stop human cloning.
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New Scientist
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| December 23, 2004 | - A California company shipped its first cloned cat.
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Mercury News
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| August 31, 2004 | - A scientist in Kentucky claimed to have created viable embryos using cells from dead people and cow eggs; Panayiotis Zavos claimed that his work, which used tissue from an 11-year-old girl who died in a car crash, a dead 18-month-old baby, and a 33-year-old dead man, proved that clones could be made of people after they have died.
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New Scientist
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| June 17, 2004 | - A team of British scientists applied for permission to clone human embryos for stem-cell research.
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Guardian
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| February 12, 2004 | -
South Korean scientists created 30 human clone embryos and harvested embryonic stem cells from one of them; the stem cells were then injected into mice, where they formed cartilage, muscle, bone, and other tissues.
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New Scientist
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Scientists at the Genetic Savings and Clone in College Station, Texas, announced that they had cloned a cat.
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| July 17, 2001 | - Another company, called Advance Cell Technology, was preparing to create human embryo clones, using a technique similar to that used to clone Dolly the sheep, in order to extract their stem cells.
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| May 22, 2001 | - The leader of the research team that cloned Dolly the sheep warned against the premature cloning of farm
animals for meat and milk production; cattle
clones have suffered from severe defects such as diabetes, immune-system deficiencies, giant tongues, intestinal blockages, and squashed faces.
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| March 27, 2001 | -
Scientists warned that clones often have random genetic flaws that produce severe developmental problems, immune-system disorders, and other defects; some cloned mice, for example, become enormously obese when they reach a certain age.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Two fertility
scientists based in the United States announced that they expected to grow the first human clone within two years.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Researchers at Du Pont cloned a gene that will allow plants to produce plastic.
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| January 16, 2001 | - An Asian gaur, a rare ox, was successfully cloned and gestated by a cow, but died a few days later of dysentery; it was the first animal to be gestated by an animal of a different species.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Animal
researchers at Texas A&M University unveiled a bull calf named Bull 86 Squared, a clone of Bull 86, a naturally disease-resistant bull that died in 1997; they say the calf is 100 times more resistant to brucellosis, tuberculosis, and salmonellosis, all of which can be transmitted to humans through beef or milk.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Britain approved rules allowing researchers to clone human embryos; German officials called such practices “cannibalism.” Cheap Chinese
pigskin miniskirts were appearing in malls all over America.
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| December 19, 2000 | - The Scottish scientists who made Dolly, the famous sheep clone, announced a plan to make genetically modified chickens that will lay eggs containing drugs.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Advanced Cell Technology, a company in Worcester, Massachusetts, announced that it had cloned an Asian guar; the embryo was gestating in an Iowan cow. The company plans to clone the extinct bucardo mountain goat (from cells collected before the last surviving goat died) as well as the giant panda (using black bears as surrogate mothers).
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