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somatic cell - Cells not involved in sexual reproduction, i.e. not germ cells. [FAO]

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Korean Cloning Fraud Case Advances Stem Cell Research  -  Aug 2, 2007
Forbes,In 2004, Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk of Seoul National University published a paper in Science purporting to have created embryonic stem cells using somatic cell

NSW offers $500000 for stem cell study  -  Aug 5, 2007
The Age,...to undertake work we hope will result in the creation of the country's first stem cell lines derived from somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos.

Half-Million Dollar Prize Offered for Therapeutic Cloning  -  Aug 7, 2007
Wired NewsA five-year ban on somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) -- the best known method of therapeutic cloning, due in large part to mistaken results by Hwang

Fresh Study Confirms Hwang Lied About Stem Cells  -  Aug 2, 2007
Chosun Ilbo,A new study confirms that human embryonic stem cells which the disgraced cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk claims to have created through somatic cell nuclear

Study shows Hwang Woo-suk's 2004 stem cell study results were false  -  Aug 2, 2007
Yonhap News,Through a method involving DNA sequence analysis of mouse stem cells created both from parthenogenesis and somatic cell cloning, the team came to the

New dairy fitness index scores well for longevity and somatic ...  -  Aug 14, 2007
Farming UK,..."As well as being good on longevity and somatic cell counts, the top 25 bulls score very highly for their ability to improve feet, legs and udders," he says

Mascol IV is back on top  -  Aug 19, 2007
Farmers Guardian,...“As well as being good on longevity and somatic cell counts, the top 25 bulls score very highly for their ability to improve feet, legs and udders,� he said

New glaucoma treatment studied  -  Aug 7, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Therapeutic cloning -- Therapeutic cloning (also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer, cell nuclear replacement, research cloning,

Viable mice created from two female eggs  -  Aug 20, 2007
Ars Technica,...of a male contribution has been proposed to be a key reason for the low success rates of cloning and various forms of somatic cell nuclear transplants.

Discredited Korean Embryonic Stem Cells' True Origins Revealed  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)In 2004, Korean investigators announced the creation of the world's first human embryonic stem cells through somatic cell nuclear transfer,

Stem cells derived from eggs alone - study  -  Aug 2, 2007
Independent Online,South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk falsely claimed to have been the first to clone a human embryo using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer in

Mechanism Discovered In Adult Stem Cell Regulation  -  Aug 1, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...role for gap-junction proteins and suggest gap junction-mediated signaling as a new and tractable control point for adult, somatic cell regulation Most

Disputed Korean Stem Cell Line Comes From An Unfertilized Egg And ...  -  Aug 6, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...as the SCNT-hES-1 cell line, the first human ES cell line purportedly generated by Korean scientists using human eggs and somatic cell nuclear transfer.

Disputed Korean stem cell line came from an unfertilised egg, not ...  -  Aug 3, 2007
NewKerala.com,The researchers also included the SCNT-hES-1 cell line, which was purportedly generated by Korean scientists using human eggs and somatic cell nuclear

Fabricated stem cell line origin revealed  -  Aug 2, 2007
Scientist,..."What the study indicates is that, during the process of trying to do the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer, [Hwang and colleagues] failed to remove

Fateful decision day for Howard  -  Aug 6, 2007
Daily Telegraph,Like all areas of advanced research, the work of refining the intricate techniques of somatic cell nuclear transfer - the transfer of nucleic material from

For Missouri, Stem Cell Measure Changes Little  -  Aug 9, 2007
New York Times,...focusing their attention narrowly on one element of the research, known as therapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer, in which the nucleus of

Cloned rabbit fine five months after birth  -  Jul 23, 2007
China Daily,Since the first somatic cell-cloned sheep, Dolly, was born in 1996, scientists have cloned mice, cattle and pigs. But it was only in 2002 that French

Revisiting the South Korean Stem-Cell Claim  -  Aug 2, 2007
NPRThe news reopens the contentious debate over somatic-cell nuclear transfer, which is sometimes referred to as therapeutic cloning.

Unwitting stem cell discovery by discredited scientist  -  Aug 14, 2007
PHG Foundation,...that some of the cells actually derived from human eggs stimulated to undergo parthenogenesis, not somatic cell nuclear transfer as Hwang had claimed.

Enter your E-mail Id  -  Aug 16, 2007
Checkbiotech.org (press release),As an undergraduate at the University of Uruguay , Spangenberg studied agronomy, but became fascinated with plant cell biology and plant somatic cell

Shamed clone fraud scientist created world’s first ‘virgin birth ...  -  Aug 2, 2007
Times Online,Professor Hwang had claimed that his stem cells had been made by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the cloning process used to create Dolly the sheep.

Korean Cloner Redeemed...Sort of  -  Aug 2, 2007
TIME...that he had created the world's first human embryonic stem cells using a delicate cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

Korean stem cells unmasked  -  Aug 2, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),Cloned ES cells are made from a somatic cell such as skin; half their chromosomes come from the mother, and half from the father.

Korean Cloned Human Cells Were Product of "Virgin Birth"  -  Aug 2, 2007
Scientific American...stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.

Plant genomics and the reiselust gene  -  Aug 14, 2007
Australian Life Scientist,As an undergraduate at the University of Uruguay, Spangenberg studied agronomy, but became fascinated with plant cell biology and plant somatic cell

Dairy industry's bright spark  -  Aug 1, 2007
Stuff.co.nz,The comfort factor is also thought to be behind the reduced somatic cell counts, which in some cases have come down from about the 400000 mark to 150000.

'Remnants of a Quiet Life' by Henry Harris  -  Jul 29, 2007
Los Angeles Times,Harris' contribution to cell biology is immense: With one colleague, he developed the technique of cell fusion foundational to somatic cell genetics;

Research fraud obscured stem cell breakthrough  -  Aug 3, 2007
Ars Technica,...removing its genetic material, and replacing it with the genetic material of an adult (a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT).

Advanced Instruments to Feature Food & Dairy Product Testing ...  -  Jul 31, 2007
PRLog.Org (press release),Advanced Instruments' Delta Instruments CombiScope(tm) Analyzer is a highly reliable system that performs both milk composition analysis and somatic cell

Missouri is Ground Zero for Stem-Cell Research  -  Jul 26, 2007
CitizenLink,..."The deceptively worded amendment was designed to trick Missourians into enshrining a right to human cloning — often called somatic cell nuclear transfer

Stem Cell Research Conference October 15-16 At The Rockefeller ...  -  Jul 24, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...followed by a special address by R. Alta Charo and presentations on Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), the most advanced hESC technique.

Fraudulent Stem Cells Actually a Scientific First  -  Aug 3, 2007
MIT Technology Review,...and from embryos created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (replacing the nucleus of an egg with the nucleus from a cell in the body).

Fowler's Health And Science Updates  -  Aug 2, 2007
KTVU.com,He said he did it with a cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer, a tricky process in which a nucleus is inserted into a cell.

Harvard Embyro Cloning 'Tragic'  -  Jul 30, 2007
The Conservative Voice,HSCI and Children's Hospital have been cleared to begin experiments using somatic cell nuclear transfer to create disease-specific stem cell lines in

DISABILITY ACTIVISTS SINK ASSISTED SUICIDE IN CALIFORNIA  -  Aug 7, 2007
Australasian Bioethics Information,..."I think this is every bit as exciting as the somatic cell nuclear transfer they were claiming," said Kent Vrana of Pennsylvania State University.

Full Text  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)The existence of bivalent chromatin structures and their role in providing cell fate flexibility during somatic cell differentiation and during development

Organic milk benefits  -  Aug 8, 2007
Searcy Daily Citizen,The best candidates for organic production are producers who have very clean operations with minimal use of drugs, a low somatic cell count (one indicator

Phyllis Zagano: Cloning our way to moral disaster 8/1  -  Aug 2, 2007
Kansas City Star,This is what they call somatic cell transfer. Unlike sperm and egg fertilization, cloning creation needs a little help, usually an electric shock to get the

Hyde Park Holsteins seeks suggestions from visitors  -  Aug 14, 2007
Agri News,Hyde Park Holsteins uses BST on cows that are at least 60 days fresh with less than a 750000 somatic cell count. They stop giving BST 20 days before a cow

Cogent Desmond Rates Highly in Holstein PLI Rankings  -  Aug 14, 2007
Stackyard,This superb production, the ability to reduce somatic cell counts and increase daughter lifespan by 0.2 lactations are all focused to achieve better dairy

How to recognize heat stress in dairy cows  -  Aug 14, 2007
Reed Business,Effect of season on somatic cell count (SCC): Summer heat appears to impact SCC. Research from the USDA found that SCC varied by season, with SCC levels

Interherd keeps tabs on performance  -  Jul 27, 2007
FarmersWeekly,..."Somatic cell count status can be defined in blocks, including whole lactation, up to 99 days, 100-199 and 200 plus, meaning we can identify where incidence

Holstein field day draws a crowd in Caledonia  -  Aug 7, 2007
Agri News,Their mixed herd of Brown Swiss and Holsteins has made the list of top 100 dairy farms in the state with the lowest somatic cell count.

Minnesota statewide news and notes  -  Aug 7, 2007
Agri News,The program is designed to help producers reduce their herds' somatic cell counts and realize greater profits from their dairy enterprises.

Ethics group launches consultation on animal cloning for food supply  -  Aug 6, 2007
Cordis News,...animal health, animal welfare and environment implications of live cloned animals, obtained through somatic cell nucleus transfer (SCNT) technique,

Midwest news and notes  -  Jul 24, 2007
Agri News,Wet, dirty or muddy lots; poorly drained stalls; milking wet cows; poor cow preparation; wet, dirty bedding; and old bedding can all cause high somatic cell

Farmers eye robots instead of milkers  -  Jul 23, 2007
Waikato Times,The system also allowed production and somatic cell count analysis using technology developed by Hamilton firm Sensortec. "We are not saying they (farmers)




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