[WumibBesowe]

South Korean Researchers Clone a Wolf



Two female cloned wolves named Snuwolf and Snuwolffy are
seen at the Seoul Zoo in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, South Korea,
Monday, March 26, 2007. A former collaborator of disgraced South
Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk claimed Monday to have succeeded
in cloning two wolves. The two wolves — endangered species —
were born Oct. 18 and 26 in 2005, said Lee Byeong-chun, a veterinary
professor of Seoul National University, according to the university's
office of research affairs. DNA tests showed the two wolves — named
Snuwolf and Snuwolffy — are clones, the office said, adding the
results would be published in the journal Cloning and Stem Cells.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/even...3lWMcF?sp=6000

[LymnInvinny]

South Korea Produces First Wolf Clones
The Dong-A llbo: Donga.com
MARCH 27, 2007

A South Korean research team headed by veterinary professor Lee Byeong-cheon of Seoul National University (SNU) has produced the first-ever wolf clones.

In a press conference on March 26 at SNU, Professor Lee said, “The grey wolf is listed as endangered. Our team succeeded in cloning two female gray wolves seventeen months ago and the two are alive and well.”

The paper on the wolf cloning appears in March issue of Cloning and Stemcells, a high-ranking journal on cloning. Prof. Hwang Woo-suk is one of coauthors of the paper. Ian Wilmut is the chief editor of the journal.

One clone is named Snuwolf and was born on October 18, 2005. The other is named Snuwolffy and was born on October 26, 2005. Their names are the combination of “SNU (Seoul National University)” and “wolf.”

Lee and his team already succeeded in dog cloning (their names are Snuppy, Bona, Peace, and Hope). And the successful production of cloned wolves is credited for helping the preservation of endangered or threatened species.

Though the fraud and embezzlement scandal over Hwang Woo-suk undermined the scientific credibility of South Korea, this research demonstrates that South Korea still excels in cloning.

Scientists took a somatic cell from the ear and placed it into an empty egg cell of dog. Then the fertilized egg was implanted into the womb of a surrogate mother, a dog.

Lee said, “The reproduction of endangered or threatened species has been very hard through artificial methods including in vitro fertilization. By using the somatic cell transfer method, a small amount of skin cells can produce clones.”

Copyright 2002 donga.com. All rights reserved.

[nuncEtedben]

What about a sheep that is 15% human?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

I am sure it'll be scientists that eventually kill off the human race through their mad uncontrolled and unnecessary experiments!

[beth]

What about a sheep that is 15% human?
. . .
I am sure it'll be scientists that eventually kill off the human race through their mad uncontrolled and unnecessary experiments!

As a matter of fact, the Bush administration is in hot water for trying to create a Justice Department that is 100% sheep.


(I wish I could take credit for that one, but it goes to comedy writer Patrick Gorse.)

[xsexymasterix]

The idea of cloning animals makes me feel sick. I see they have now created a pig which glows green in the dark - can't for the life of me think why.

[cabonuserollyo]

Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food

By AARON C. DAVIS, The Associated Press
Apr 18, 2007

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Steaks, pork chops, milk and other products from cloned livestock would have to be clearly labeled on grocers' shelves under a bill pending in the California Legislature.If passed, the requirement could be more stringent than federal rules. The Food and Drug Administration is poised to give final approval to meat and milk from cloned animals without any special labeling, though a bill introduced in Congress would require it.

State Sen. Carole Migden said consumers deserve to know what they're buying and to be able to decide if they want to eat food from cloned animals. That is especially true because the long-term consequences of eating artificially produced animals cannot yet be studied, she said.

"Wouldn't you like to know if you're drinking milk from a cloned cow, or feeding your children pork chops from a somatic cell nuclear transfer event?" Migden, a Democrat from San Francisco, asked during a news conference last week before the Senate Health Committee voted 6-4 along party lines to support her bill. A similar bill has been introduced in the California Assembly.

Migden was flanked by organic dairy farmers and other supporters wearing cow costumes and carrying placards that read "Not Milk - Cloned food is coming but you can stop it."

She said the bill isn't designed to undermine the Food and Drug Administration but noted the agency's problems in approving and regulating painkillers.

"They're an overburdened agency and not always 100 percent correct," she said. "They've been duped before on ... Celebrex and Vioxx."
Migden pointed to recent polls she said suggest the FDA's ruling on cloned food could be influential with consumers.

A Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology survey found that 64 percent of respondents were leery of animal cloning. But a University of Maryland poll found that the same percentage said they would buy, or consider buying, such food if the government said it was safe.

A bill introduced in Congress by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland, would require cloned meat or milk products to carry a label reading: "This product is from a cloned animal or its progeny."

The California Cattlemen's Association and other industry groups oppose the legislation.

"We're sort of a little ahead of ourselves," said Matt Byrne, the association's executive vice president. "There's no meat or milk from cloned animals on the market, and there's no expectation that this will be an issue any time soon."

The FDA in December issued a preliminary report saying there was no evidence that eating meat from cloned cows, pigs and goats - or their offspring - presents concerns about food safety. The agency could grant final approval for manufacturers to sell cloned animal products by year's end.

Farmers and food safety experts who testified in support of Migden's bill said they feel a sense of urgency to make sure products from cloned animals are labeled. Without them, cloned DNA could quickly infiltrate the nation's food chain.

"Cloning is a radical new form of reproduction, and the long-term ramifications are unknown," said Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation, the Dark Side of the American Meal." "This bill gives consumers the ability to choose if they want to be part of a huge food-safety experiment."

According to research by Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, the FDA has based its preliminary findings on limited samples, said Jean Halloran, the group's director of food policy initiatives. Findings that cloned pork could be safe, for example, were based on tests of just five pigs, while the findings about cows' milk were from 43 cows.

"Considering that 90 percent of cloned animals die because there's something wrong with them, we don't consider that to be an adequate safety assessment of what millions of people would be eating and drinking from millions of different animals," Halloran said.

With or without labels, consumers have at least one clue they're not eating cloned meat: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's green organic seal, given to food produced without pesticides or antibiotics, also means clone-free, according to the agency.
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Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

http://www.examiner.com/a-680351~Bill_Would_Require_Labels_on_Cloned_Food.ht ml

[WhileKelf]

I see they have now created a pig which glows green in the dark - can't for the life of me think why.

I didn't hear about that one. What is your source?

[Flirigor]

Beat me to it Rap.

This sounds more than far-fetched. More scientifically ignorant paranoia seems to be seeping in from Tabloid Land.


PS. Rap, the article about having to label the food as "cloned". I would rather have warnings about BGH, steroids, that milk hormone and antibiotics in my meat than the dubious warning that it was cloned.

Cloned food would be MUCH healthier than "enhanced" anyday.

[chelviweeme]

Beat me to it Rap.

If it would make you happy, I can delete my last post, and you can delete the above sentence, and you can take the credit.

I would rather have warnings about BGH, steroids, that milk hormone and antibiotics in my meat than the dubious warning that it was cloned.

Cloned food would be MUCH healthier than "enhanced" anyday.

If I read you, you're implying that the politicians are scoring points by introducing bills that require "cloned" on the labels -- when the politicians should redirect their efforts into getting the "enhancements" listed on the labels. I totally agree.

[nermise]

Yep yep! You got it Rap!

Kind of shocking when you see this stuff happening.

Go rent "The Corporation" and watch it. It is a little heavy handed and exaggerated at times (such as blaming corporate america for the increase in cancer rate w/o discounting the added fact that people are living longer, and therefore cancer has been killing more people later in life rather than other causes, but still...), but it has a lot of information on these things.

People are afraid of cloning because they do not understand it. They do not realize that they are not going to get mutant killer bunny rabbits or a steak that will turn them into fashion consultants if they were to eat it. If you do not get a clone 99.9% right, the critter does not survive. Hell, they do not even live at all!

The only thing I am worried about with cloning is something they have been doing in hortaculture for years. When you "purify" a genetic line too much, and remove most of its divergent characteristics, you make it more succeptable to infection and other maladies later on. If we get a strain of something that attacks our corn fields, we could be in trouble as most of the corn is "twin brothers" to every other plant out there. There will be very little chance of any natural resistance being present in someone elses fields if they are all using the exact same strain.....

All this who-ha about evil clones is just something that people who have watched too many 1950 sci-fi movies (or any movie dealing with clones in the past 50 years for that matter!) have stuck in their heads.

fear sells. And ignorance works so well with fear.

[gopsbousperie]

I didn't hear about that one. What is your source?

It was on TV here a few weeks ago, but i found this on another website_


TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP)—Pigs may not be able to fly just yet, but at least three of them glow. Taiwanese researchers said Friday they have bred the pigs with a fluorescent material in a move they hope will benefit the island's stem cell research effort.
The fluorescent pigs are green from inside out, including their hearts and internal organs, said Wu Shinn-Chih, assistant professor of animal science at the prestigious National Taiwan University.
From the outside, the pigs appear to be bathed in a light green tint, particularly their eyes, mouths and knuckles.
Wu said the pigs are bred by injecting their embryos with fluorescent green protein taken from jelly fish.
Pigs are commonly used to study human diseases, and Wu believes his technique will be useful in helping researchers monitor tissue changes over time.
He said fluorescent cells would show up during stem cell treatment of diseased organs, allowing physicians to monitor the healing progress.
"This was simply an idea of ours,'' said Wu. "We hope it can help with future stem cell research by cutting down on the time researchers expend.''
Last year, another team of Taiwanese researchers claimed they developed an alternative to laboratory mice for testing new medicines—using fluorescent fish to show the impact of experimental drugs on cancerous tumors.
They took a gene that makes jelly fish fluoresce and transplanted it into the livers of zebra fish that were then later implanted with cancer cells for testing.
The gene highlighted the cancerous tissue with a special tint, allowing the glowing zebra fish to be used for screening the impact of drugs.

[pfcwlkxav]

Wu said the pigs are bred by injecting their embryos with fluorescent green protein taken from jelly fish. That aint cloning.

Hell, I can't see how this protien would be produced in the animal unless tehy are injecting it with teh RNA needed to encode it into the animals system (virus-style).

There seems to be some information missing here. Aside from the (AP) could you provide a link?

[ehib8yPc]

That aint cloning.

Hell, I can't see how this protien would be produced in the animal unless tehy are injecting it with teh RNA needed to encode it into the animals system (virus-style).

There seems to be some information missing here. Aside from the (AP) could you provide a link?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4605202.stm

http://www.livescience.com/animalwor...wing_pigs.html

Cloning or not its all very odd.

[DfrtYhyu]

Cloning - Make an exact reproduction of the embryo: the "baby" is an exact duplicate of the "parent".

Genetic Engineering - Change the embryo: the "baby" is different from the "parent".


Meerkat's pigs and Capn_Birdseye's sheep are examples of genetic engineering.


This topic is about cloning only, but...

Somebody is welcomed to start a genetic engineering topic.