Breakthrough By Spanish Researchers Raises Hopes Of Saving Endangered And Lost Species

London: In what could raise hopes for the regeneration of extinct species, scientists have for the first time resurrected the Pyrenean ibex, a wild mountain goat, by cloning it from frozen tissue.

By having exploited the earth

No Quick End For Cloning Product Moratorium - USDA US: April 8, 2008 WASHINGTON - The US Agriculture Department said Monday it will not lift a voluntary moratorium on selling meat and milk from cloned animals to consumers any time soon. In January, the US Food and Drug Administration ruled that products from cloned cattle, swine and goats and their offspring were as safe as milk and meat from traditional animals. Before then, farmers and ranchers had followed a voluntary ban on the sale of cloned products.

Just over a decade after scientists cloned the first animal, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has declared that meat and milk from cloned farm animals are safe to eat. The announcement

Produce from cloned animals has won regulatory approval. Now companies must persuade consumers to buy it
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it is believed that buffaloes are more tolerant to tropical infections than cattle. A new study says Indian water buffalo harbours a protein which can yield antibiotics to cure diseases in cattle.

The ethical question doesn't arise when cloning a human organ

CUT a stem of a plant and stick it on the ground. Chances are it will grow into a new plant. The cells in the plant stem have the ability to do so. Do we humans have this same ability? Research findings during the last two decades suggest that we might, depending on which of our cells we start from.