After an eight-year-old boxer dog named Dylan died after being diagnosed with a brain tumor and suffering from cardiac arrest, his owners, a British couple named Laura Jacques and Richard Remde, decided to clone him. When Dylan died in June, the grieving couple began research on the cloning process, ultimately…
Teeny-tiny animals are something the world loves to fawn over, and scientists in China have recognized that as an excuse to enter into the domestic pet market. BGI, a Shenzhen-based genomics institute, has announced plans to genetically engineer miniature pigs and sell them to the public.
The first season of Orphan Black, BBC America's cloning conspiracy thriller, comes out on DVD this week, and everyone who hasn't watched it yet needs to pick up the discs and start binging now. Over just 10 episodes, Orphan Black has become our newest scifi obsession, and here's why.
We've been thoroughly enjoying Orphan Black, BBC America's show about a young woman who discovers, to her shock, that she's a clone. But what if, instead of being an orphan with no knowledge of her genetic heritage, Sarah was raised by loving parents? How might they try to ensure she grew up to be a happy and fully…
Today's Good Morning America explored the practice of pet cloning, focusing on the experience of one Danielle Tarantola. Danielle lost her dog Trouble years ago and has now paid $50,000 to have him cloned in South Korea, one of the few countries in the world that deal in commercial animal cloning.
Perhaps if she were not so stunningly beautiful, we could dismiss this email, which arrived via the tips line this morning. But she is, and so we cannot ignore this urgent missive. Because: What if Scarlett Johansson actually is a clone? Breaking news via loony email, after the jump.
OMG cutest genetic manipulation ever: fluorescent kitties! South Korean scientists have cloned a Turkish Angora cat and after modifying a skin color gene, the Stepford cats glow red under ultraviolet lights. The process used to clone kittens could help rare animals reproduce and possibly develop treatments for human…
