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unusual facts about cloning


Longhorn crazy ant

Although the queen produces workers through normal sexual means, her daughter queens are her genetic clones and her sons are the genetic clones of her mate.


À ton image

In order to put a painful past and a terrible sense of guilt behind her, a sterile young woman named Mathilde (played by Nastassja Kinski) uses extreme cloning methods to give birth to Manon (Audrey DeWilder), and is comforted by her obstetrician husband Thomas (Christopher Lambert).

Bernard Siegel

Ian Wilmut described Mr. Siegel as an “unsung hero” in his book, After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning.

Billy Montgomery

LFF spokesman Dan Richey, himself a former state senator then of Ferriday, listed ten Senate candidates who have supported cloning in the past, eight Democrats and two Republicans, Montgomery and Sherri Smith Cheek of Shreveport.

Desaad

During Darkseid's first incursion on Earth DeSaad appears in Apokopolis discussing with Steppenwolf about cloning the DNA of a captured and tortured Superman for a new race of Parademons.

Geron Corporation

In 2001, when Congress was attempting to ban all forms of cloning, Geron CEO Thomas Okarma spoke before Congress to preserve cloning for therapeutic purposes.

Herman the Bull

Together with cloned cows named Holly and Belle, he lived out his retirement at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden.

History of Stanford Medicine

In 1980 Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco received a patent for gene splicing and cloning technologies - a catalyst for the nascent biotechnology industry.

Jerry Yang

Xiangzhong Yang (1959–2009), biotechnology scientist who worked on cloning

Leptin receptor

After co-discovering the Leptin gene with Jeffrey Friedman et al. in 1994, which involved a reverse genetic/positional cloning strategy to clone ob and db, Rudolph Leibel, working with collaborators at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and colleague Streamson Chua, confirmed cloning of the leptin receptor by demonstrating that an apparent leptin receptor cloned from a choroid plexus library using leptin as ligand, mapped to a physical map that included db and fa.

Matthew P. Scott

Among his laboratory's many subsequent discoveries, he is recognized for the cloning of the patched gene family and demonstration that a human homolog PTCH1 is a key tumor suppressor gene for the Hedgehog signaling pathway as well as the causative gene for the nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, or Gorlin syndrome.

Mental Overdrive

By means of various acts of wilful dissemination he donated audiosperm to the cloning projects that produced Bjørn Torske, Röyksopp, Lindstrom and Prins Thomas.

Michelle Ronksley-Pavia

Ronksley-Pavia’s themes generally delve into the human unconscious using scientific subject matter with overtones of religious and particularly ethical questions with regard to DNA cloning, inequalities, particularly disability and racial issues.

Newland, North Carolina

Joyce McKinney: Became notorious for the alleged kidnap and rape of Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson in England in 1977, and hit the news again in 2008 for cloning her pit bull terrier in Korea.

Nicolai Hartmann

His early work in the philosophy of biology has been cited in modern discussions of genomics and cloning, and his views on consciousness and free will are currently in vogue among contributors to the Journal of Consciousness Studies.

Pallab Ghosh

Ghosh has covered subjects including the human genome project, cloning, stem cell research and genetically modified (GM) crops.

Phone cloning

CDMA cloning involves gaining access to the devices Embedded File System /nvm/num directory via specialized software or placing a modified EEPROM into the target mobile telephone, allowing the electronic serial number (ESN) & or Mobile Equipment Identifier (MEID) of the mobile phone to be changed.

Prometea

Texas A&M University was also undertaking a horse cloning project when the Italian team first succeeded.

PSC101

pSC101 was the first cloning vector, used in 1973 by Herbert Boyer and Stanley Norman Cohen.

Silent Love

Silent Love is the fourth single released by Violinski, and also the lead single from their last album Stop Cloning About, and was also included on the compilation album "Clog Dance: The Very Best of Violinski"

SQuORE

Contract management may rely on code analysis to define levels of quality between contractors: e.g. cloning ratio, complexity of functions, specific ratings.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch

Section 31: Abyss, (Jeffrey Lang and David Weddle, July 2001): Dr. Bashir is sent by shadowy intelligence agency Section 31 to deal with a rogue S31 agent who has taken control of a Jem'Hadar cloning facility abandoned by the Dominion after the war, and who, like Bashir, is genetically enhanced.

T'Pol

The cloning procedure, however, was improperly done, and the child — whom T'Pol named Elizabeth in honor of Trip's deceased sister — died soon after being rescued from the Mars facility where she was being held.

The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix

Unbeknownst to either of them at the time, Madelyn Pryor was a clone of Jean Grey, created by Mister Sinister.

Trevor Goodchild

Among the major changes is that he is shown to be in a power struggle with his brother (a character not featured in the TV series), and as part of the film's cloning-related plotline, it is revealed that Trevor is a seventh-generation clone created from DNA from the original Trevor Goodchild of the early 21st century, who had been married to a pre-clone version of Æon Flux.

X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse

Replacing the old maps and weapons are new designs, and all of the enemies in the game have been replaced with cyborg clones of popular X-Men characters, all with their own special powers—for example Archangel is immune to rockets, Wolverine has his healing factor, etc.


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