Dr Amy Bishop | Cloning...//..Inside China's animal cloning factory

[Cidersomerset]

Edited 18/1/18....I took out the Dr.Amy Bishop vid as it timed out.

Since Dolly the sheep we have been waiting to see where cloning is going,



Dolly the sheep didn't die prematurely because of cloning - scientists claim she was
as healthy as a normal eweA new X-ray examination of Dolly's skeleton found no
evidence of abnormal osteoarthritis... 24 NOV 2017

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/dol...urely-11580741
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[In 2002, there were reports of human cloning in China.]




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Dozens of human embryos cloned in China
19:22 06 March 2002 by Philip Cohen, San Francisco

Chinese scientists are claiming a great leap forward in human cloning - the creation
of dozens of cloned embryos advanced enough to harvest embryonic stem cells.
Their intention is not to copy human beings, but create genetically matched cells to
make tissues for transplant patients and for research. The work has not yet been
reported in any peer-reviewed journal but Lu Guangxiu of the Xiangya Medical
College revealed details of her work in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
Experts familiar with her work say that three or four other Chinese labs have made
similar or greater strides forward.Another team based at Shanghai No. 2 Medical
University claims to have derived stem cells from hybrid embryos composed of
human cells and rabbit eggs.

Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang, a Chinese-born cloning scientist now at the University of
Connecticut at Storrs, says he has been aware of the advances being made in
China for a long time. "These are credible people," he says. "I've encouraged them
to publish in peer-reviewed journals so that they receive credit and the world
knows about their accomplishments."

Racing ahead

The announcement lends weight to concerns of many cloning scientists that while
the research in the US and UK has been bogged down by political and ethical
concerns, it may be racing ahead elsewhere in the world. "It takes the air out of the
argument that by passing laws here we can stop the technology from moving
forward," says Robert Lanza of Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology.

This is not the first report of human cloning experiments. In 1998, researchers from
South Korea claimed to have grown a cloned embryo to the four cell stage before
destroying it. And Clonaid, a company set up by a UFO cult, also claims to be
making advances. Lanza's ACT recently published a journal paper on cloning human
embryos with the intention of harvesting embryonic stem cells (ESCs). However
that proved impossible since their embryos were only able divide into a few cells.

read more....
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l#.Ut6YBa9Q2Uk


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Inside China's animal cloning factory

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ysj6Wx1Xa48

Published on 14 Jan 2014

Inside China's animal cloning factory

With a robotic rover driving on the Moon and the world's fastest supercomputer,
China is emerging as a new superpower in science.The country is spending vast
amounts on research - so much that one leading British scientist says China is on
course to overtake the US in 30-40 years' time.Science editor David Shukman was
given rare access to one key area of Chinese research - a laboratory which creates
around 500 cloned animals per year.

China cloning on an 'industrial scale'

You hear the squeals of the pigs long before reaching a set of long buildings set in
rolling hills in southern China.Feeding time produces a frenzy as the animals strain
against the railings around their pens. But this is no ordinary farm.Run by a fast-
growing company called BGI, this facility has become the world's largest centre for
the cloning of pigs.The technology involved is not particularly novel - but what is
new is the application of mass production.The first shed contains 90 animals in two
long rows. They look perfectly normal, as one would expect, but each of them is
carrying cloned embryos. Many are clones themselves.This place produces an
astonishing 500 cloned pigs a year: China is exploiting science on an industrial
scale.

Wang Jun...Chief executive, BGI

To my surprise, we're taken to see how the work is done. A room next to the pens
serves as a surgery and a sow is under anaesthetic, lying on her back on an
operating table. An oxygen mask is fitted over her snout and she's breathing
steadily. Blue plastic bags cover her trotters.Two technicians have inserted a fibre-
optic probe to locate the sow's uterus. A third retrieves a small test-tube from a
fridge: these are the blastocysts, early stage embryos prepared in a lab. In a
moment, they will be implanted.The room is not air-conditioned; nor is it
particularly clean. Flies buzz around the pig's head. My first thought is that the
operation is being conducted with an air of total routine. Even the presence of a
foreign television crew seems to make little difference. The animal is comfortable
but there's no sensitivity about how we might react, let alone what animal rights
campaigners might make of it all.I check the figures: the team can do two
implantations a day. The success rate is about 70-80%


Sows are implanted with early stage embryos known as blastocysts Dusk is falling
as we're shown into another shed where new-born piglets are lying close to their
mothers to suckle. Heat lamps keep the room warm. Some of the animals are
clones of clones. Most have been genetically modified.The point of the work is to
use pigs to test out new medicines. Because they are so similar genetically to
humans, pigs can serve as useful "models". So modifying their genes to give them
traits can aid that process. One batch of particularly small pigs has had a growth
gene removed - they stopped growing at the age of one. Others have had their
DNA tinkered with to try to make them more susceptible to Alzheimer's.

Back at the company headquarters, a line of technicians is hunched over
microscopes. This is a BGI innovation: replacing expensive machines with people.
It's called "handmade cloning" and is designed to make everything quicker and
easier.The scientist in charge, Dr Yutao Du, explains the technique in a way that
leaves me reeling.

"We can do cloning on a very large scale," she tells me, "30-50 people together
doing cloning so that we can make a cloning factory here."A cloning factory - an
incredible notion borrowed straight from science fiction. But here in Shenzhen, in
what was an old shoe factory, this rising power is creating a new industry.



Infographic
The scale of ambition is staggering. BGI is not only the world's largest centre for
cloning pigs - it's also the world's largest centre for gene sequencing. In
neighbouring buildings, there are rows of gene sequencers - machines the size of
fridges operating 24 hours a day crunching through the codes for life.To illustrate
the scale of this operation, Europe's largest gene sequencing centre is the
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge. It has 30 machines. BGI has
156 and has even bought an American company that makes them. BGI's chief
executive, Wang Jun, tells me how they need the technology to develop
ever faster and cheaper ways of reading genes. Again, a comparison for scale: a
recently-launched UK project seeks to sequence 10,000 human genomes. BGI has
ambitions to sequence the genomes of a million people, a million animals and a
million plants.Wang Jun is keen to stress that all this work must be relevant to
ordinary people through better healthcare or tastier food. The BGI canteen is used
as a testbed for some of the products from the labs: everything from grouper twice
the normal size, to pigs, to yoghurt.

I ask Wang Jun how he chooses what to sequence. After the shock of hearing the
phrase "cloning factory", out comes another bombshell:Chinese scientists at cloning
centre BGI has ambitions to sequence the genomes of a million people, a million
animals and a million plants "If it tastes good you should sequence it," he tells
me. "You should know what's in the genes of that species."

Species that taste good is one criterion. Another he cites is that of industrial use -
raising yields, for example, or benefits for healthcare. "A third category is if it looks
cute - anything that looks cute: panda, polar bear, penguin, you should really
sequence it - it's like digitalising all the wonderful species," he explains. I wonder
how he feels about acquiring such power to take control of nature but he
immediately contradicts me.

"No, we're following Nature - there are lots of people dying from hunger and
protein supply so we have to think about ways of dealing with that, for example
exploring the potential of rice as a species," the BGI chief counters.China is on a
trajectory that will see it emerging as a giant of science: it has a robotic rover on
the Moon, it holds the honour of having the world's fastest supercomputer and BGI
offers a glimpse of what industrial scale could bring to the future of biology.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25576718

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The science behind dog cloning

Tech Insider

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DmHYUvmiXQI

Sooam is a Korean company that has nearly perfected dog cloning.
When we visited their labs in Seoul, we were blown away by how simple the
process was. Watch and find out how it's all done.Produced by Will Wei & Drake
Baer. Animations by Rob Ludacer.
Read more: http://www.techinsider.io/

[Flash]

And tell me they are not cloning humans!!!

We will end up with a whole row of psychopatic narcissistic rich beings all cloned many times. What a nightmare!

[LivioRazlo]

Cloning should be banned in human trials as well as animal trials. This is just the beginning of the end.

[Flash]

i bet anything that the Cabal, Queens and Rotschilds and higher up have been cloning themselves for at least 50 years and most probably much more (with the gracious help of ETs). We may already have clones and self perpretating psychopaths at the top of the hierarchy.

[anonymous]

my privacy standards have changed - 5/10/16 - apologies for the many edits of public comments

[conk]

Amy Bishop? Hmmm, that name. Yep, the same Bishop that killed her young brother and late in life her coworker. Now sitting in jail forever. Her work must have driven her mad.

[Openmindedskeptic]

Brave new world indeed when not only are pigs being cloned but they're also being genetically modified in the process.

[Fairy Friend]

Cloning in the scientific world has been done for over 30 years. There is another second technique used to do cloning. Another way to clone is by taking the early blastosphere cells and separating them out. Each one can be implanted individually and form an embryo. And then you have a set of clones with identical DNA. So there is actually more than one way to clone. This technique doesn't destroy the original DNA but clones it.

[jackovesk]

Posted by Flash (here)
And tell me they are not cloning humans!!!

We will end up with a whole row of psychopatic narcissistic rich beings all cloned many times. What a nightmare!

Your 'English' Flash is getting much better...

[Cidersomerset]

I remember this story about the cloning competition in Korea
which resulted in Minnie Winne below who is now pregnant
naturally. The other article is old and follows a doctor trying
to clone humans , which he may well have done by now ?

A pulse of electricity is used to spark development , which does
have a hint of Frankenstein....




Cloned Newmarket dachshund expecting puppies

A dachshund created through cloning is now expecting naturally-conceived puppies.

Minnie Winnie was cloned after her owner Rebecca Bourne, from Wickhambrook,
near Newmarket, entered her dog Winnie into £60,000 South Korean cloning competition.

The RSPCA said cloning came with dangers to the animal.

13 Jan 2018
From the section Suffolk

read more...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...ecting-puppies

Breaking News - Britain's first cloned dog Minnie Winnie expecting puppies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgUvWnuCBZ8
Published on 9 Jan 2018

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Doctor Claims He Cloned Human Embryos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpiSdoFri2s
Published on 22 Apr 2009
http://news.sky.com/skynews

An American doctor has claimed to have cloned a number of human
embryos and implanted them into the wombs of four volunteers.
None have resulted in a pregnancy but Dr Zavos says he WILL
produce a child within the next few years.

Sky's Health Correspondent Thomas Moore reports.

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The First Human Clone - Real Stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zTDUZKFb6k

Published on 7 Nov 2015
This powerful documentary looks at the controversial attempts to clone
a human being. The film documents for the first time on television the
formation of a ten-cell human embryo and explains the science behind
the cloning procedure. We follow the secretive efforts of a small group
of doctors and scientists, led by Dr. Panos Zavos, to develop cloning
techniques in the face of ferocious opposition from many governments
and most of society.

[Cidersomerset]

The Mission to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xmlpSOHc5A4

Published on 8 Apr 2015
Right now, in the 21st century, South Korean scientists are actually working
to resurrect the prehistoric woolly mammoth using cloning technology and
the flesh of perfectly preserved specimen once buried in Northern Siberia.
The hope is that if they can find an active cell from the meaty leg of a 40,000
year old frozen mammoth, it could hold the keys to bringing back the extinct species.

At the same time, shady tusk hunting Siberians looking for mammoth ivory
support the Korean cloning project, by discovering frozen mammoths in the
quickly melting permafrost of the Russian Far North. This bizarre supply chain
inspired us to travel to Seoul, Yakutsk, and Moscow, to learn about humanity’s
quest to both profit from, and clone, the legendary woolly mammoth.

Read More: Cloning a Mammoth is Only the Start: http://bit.ly/1PjU7ap

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How Close Are We to Resurrecting Extinct Species?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA1_mdiDgyk
Published on 3 Dec 2017
Bringing extinct animals back to life sounds like science fiction, but
gene-editing techniques are making it possible.

[Foxie Loxie]

Very interesting about the mammoths! Thanks, Cider!

[Cidersomerset]

First monkey clones created in Chinese laboratory

By Helen Briggs
BBC News
24 January 2018

Two monkeys have been cloned using the technique that produced Dolly the sheep.

Identical long-tailed macaques Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua were born several weeks
ago at a laboratory in China.Scientists say populations of monkeys that are genetically
identical will be useful for research into human diseases.But critics say the work raises
ethical concerns by bringing the world closer to human cloning.

Qiang Sun of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience said the cloned
monkeys will be useful as a model for studying diseases with a genetic basis, including
some cancers, metabolic and immune disorders."There are a lot of questions about
primate biology that can be studied by having this additional model," he said.


Zhong Zhong was created by somatic cell nuclear transfer

Zhong Zhong was born eight weeks ago and Hua Hua six weeks ago. They are named
after the Mandarin term for the Chinese nation and people.The researchers say the monkeys
are being bottle fed and are currently growing normally. They expect more macaque clones
to be born over the coming months.


Read More...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42809445