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Mammoths May Be Roaming The World Soon

8:00AM December 5, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Scientists have been trying to clone woolly mammoths for years, but now they’re really close. So close that in five years you may see herds of this gigantic beast — one of our favourite extinct prehistoric animals of all time. More »

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China Is Cloning This Entire European City

5:51AM June 18, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Not happy with cloning watches, iPods, trains and even combat airplanes, the Chinese are now cloning an entire European city. And not any city, but the mountain town of Hallstatt, Austria, a UNESCO World Heritage site. More »

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Our Genetic Databases Are Already Corrupted

6:20AM February 18, 2011 | Esther Inglis-Arkell

The big news back in the day was sequencing the human genome. It was a long, laborious process, and the resulting document was hardly a page-turner, but it meant that if someone had the right technology they could reconstruct human DNA from scratch. They could build a human. Now they can build a whole lot of things. More »

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Dolly The Sheep Is Alive, Alive, Alive, Alive!

10:00AM December 2, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

In 1996, Dolly the sheep made headlines for being the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. She was put down in 2002. But as it turns out, Dolly’s still alive today. A scientist secretly made four copies years ago. More »

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Europe Could Be Eating Cloned Meat, Dairy Right Now

6:40AM July 31, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Whether you think it’s cool and futuristic or gross and immoral, cloning can yield leaner, healthier livestock. And the Times reports that some cloned meat and dairy products are already thought to be lining Old World supermarket shelves. More »

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Panayiotis Zavos Has Cloned Dead Humans, Implanted Other Cloned Embryos

11:40PM April 22, 2009 | Mark Wilson

This is Cady, who died at age 10 in a car accident. More recently, Dr. Panayiotis Zavos infused her DNA into a cow’s egg to study human cloning.

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Couple Pays $US150,000 for First Single-Birth Dog Clone in the US

9:52PM January 29, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

I understand people really close to dogs. I am. I love Jones like if he was my own son. Seriously. But paying $US150,000 to clone a dog after he dies, like this couple from Miami?

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Scientists Clone Mouse from Damaged Frozen Cells, Mammoth, Sabertooth Next In Line

1:00AM November 5, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

Apparently, genetic scientist Teruhiko Wakayama hasn’t read Jurassic Park, as he is working to create technology to clone mammoths, sabertooth tigers, giant deers, and steppe lions from frozen genetic material. The DNA in cells subjected to permafrost gets extremely damaged, making it impossible to use for cloning. Until now, that is, because Wakayama and his team of researchers used new technology to successfully clone a healthy mouse from a carcass that was frozen for 16 years at -4 ºF. Now he’s saying that a mammoth is possible, opening the door to the realisation of the Pleistocene Park, a project that seeks to create a sanctuary with those animals and more in northern Siberia:

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