Cidersomerset
21st January 2014, 16:02
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,
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01691/cloned-sheep_1691358c.jpg
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/dolly-sheep-didnt-die-prematurely-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/dn2012-dozens-of-human-embryos-cloned-in-china.html#.Ut6YBa9Q2Uk
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Inside China's animal cloning factory
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%
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72046000/jpg/_72046520_dscn0801.jpg
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.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72256000/gif/_72256743_cloning_process_624v2.gif
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
===================================================
The science behind dog cloning
Tech Insider
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/
Since Dolly the sheep we have been waiting to see where cloning is going,
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01691/cloned-sheep_1691358c.jpg
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/dolly-sheep-didnt-die-prematurely-11580741
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[In 2002, there were reports of human cloning in China.]
http://www.newscientist.com/img/misc/ns_logo.jpg
Home | News
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/dn2012-dozens-of-human-embryos-cloned-in-china.html#.Ut6YBa9Q2Uk
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Inside China's animal cloning factory
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%
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72046000/jpg/_72046520_dscn0801.jpg
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.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72256000/gif/_72256743_cloning_process_624v2.gif
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
===================================================
The science behind dog cloning
Tech Insider
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/