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First Licensed Human Embryo Clones Will Be Australian

Scientists were given green light by the Australian government, in order to obtain embryonic stem cells out of cloned human embryos. The license and 7.200 human eggs were granted to Sydney IVF, an in vitro fertilization company. Previously, the practice had been banned, but the ban was lifted in December 2006 by...

19 September 2008
07:14 GMT

Ethical Issues on Cloning Our Best People

Human cloning, although highly unofficial, is possible, and there are thousands of uses for it, from the medical organ donation to science and art. We've all wondered how a classical composer such as Mozart or Bach would fare in the modern world, and many would like to listen to more songs from Freddie Mercury. ...

17 September 2008
08:30 GMT

Alzheimer's May Be Maternally Inherited

A new study shows that people with mothers having Alzheimer's may themselves be predisposed to the disease, suggesting that the condition could be related to an unbalance in the way the brain handles sugar, which is most likely genetically inherited. "Overall, these findings show that their brains are not workin...

31 July 2008
04:26 GMT

Autistic Children Often Have Socially Aloof Parents

A new link between genetics and autism was established in the outcome of a study showing that the parents of autistic children are likely to behave similarly to their young ones when it comes to evaluating people's facial expressions, although they do not have the disorder themselves.By conducting psychological ...

18 July 2008
04:17 GMT

Dinosaur Era Feather Reveals Its Colors

The long debate over a complexly colored fossilized feather belonging to a species of bird that flew in the Earth's skies some 100 million years ago has been settled recently by scientists after they revealed that the coloring patterns were of biological origin, and might contain clues to some of the hues displa...

9 July 2008
04:38 GMT

'Unicorn' Deer Spotted in Italy

The photograph featured here presents a one-year old deer born in captivity at the research center park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Italy, which has a single horn placed towards the center of its head, similar to the unicorns fabled in popular myths. The photograph was released yesterday by Gilberto T...

12 June 2008
04:26 GMT

Mutations Made K.O. by a Protein

A team at Harvard Medical School peeked at the processes that occur during the development of the eggs inside mammalian ovaries, finding a protein, called p63, essential for detecting and eliminating DNA damaged ovules, so that only healthy ones will be fertilized. The study is published online in the journal Na...

27 November 2006
06:07 GMT


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