Welcome to the Clone Farm

2010-02-24T06:11:33Z

<div><p>ENID, Oklahoma (Reuters) - To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows are huddled in similar looking pens. But some of the cattle here don't just resemble each other. They are literally identical -- clear down to their genes.</p><p>Of the 400-some cattle in Seoul

S.Korea court convicts disgraced stem cell scientist

2010-02-24T14:25:27Z

<div><p>A South Korean court Monday imposed a suspended prison term on a disgraced scientist whose claims of stem-cell breakthroughs rocked the scientific world until his research was found to be faked.</p><p>The Seoul court passed a two-year sentence suspended for three years on Hwang Woo-Suk after convicting him of embezzling research funds...

SKorean disgraced cloning scientist awaits verdict

2010-02-24T14:47:52Z

<div><p>After a three-year trial, a South Korean court is Monday due to pass judgement on a scientist hailed as a national hero until his apparently landmark stem cell research was ruled to be fake.</p><p>Prosecutors have demanded a four-year jail term for Hwang Woo-Suk, who went on trial in June 2006 for embezzling funds and ethical lapses.</p><p>Hwang, 5...

S.Korea scientist wins dog cloning court battle

2010-02-25T05:22:04Z

<div><p>Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has won a copyright battle over dog-cloning techniques his colleagues said Saturday.</p><p>A Seoul district court on Friday ruled that his cloning technology is different from procedures patented by the Seoul Na...

Disgraced Hwang wins court battle over dog cloning

2010-02-25T05:25:48Z

SCIENCE-SKOREA-CLONING-COPYRIGHT-TRIAL-HWANG-FILES

2009-09-18T21:56:27Z

(FILES) File photo taken April 17, 2009 shows disgraced South Korean cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk at the Seoul Central District Court. Hwang has won a copyright battle over dog-cloning techniques his colleagues said on September 19, 2009. A Seoul district court on September 18 ruled that his cloning technology is different from procedures patented by the Seoul National University.</p><p>Snuppy...

World's first cloned wolf dies

2010-02-25T13:26:44Z

<div><p>A scientist in South Korea says one of the world's first cloned wolves has died for unknown reasons.</p><p>Seoul National University professor Shin Nam-sik says the wolf, named Snuwolf, was found dead at its zoo on Aug. 26.</p><p>Shin, who was involved in the project that...

World's first cloned wolf dies: researcher

2010-02-25T13:27:59Z

<div><p>One of the world's first two cloned wolves has died from an apparent infection, a professor who produced the clones almost four years ago said Tuesday.</p><p>Snuwolf (Seoul National University wolf) was found dead on August 26 at Seoul Zoo, Professor Shin Na...

SKorean cloning expert to re-create dogs for province

2010-02-25T13:41:24Z

<div><p>South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk plans to present two cloned dogs to one of the country's provinces to help it nurture a bio-technology industry, his research centre said Monday.</p><p>The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation led by Hwang said it was ready to clone a Tibetan Mas...

Washington DC - March 05, 2002

2009-08-26T15:56:01Z

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MASS) and Christopher Reeve hold a press conference on therapeutic cloning on Captiol Hill, Tuesday, March 5, 2002....

S.Korea prosecutors seek jail for clone expert

2010-02-25T16:39:09Z

<div><p>South Korean prosecutors on Monday demanded a four-year jail term for disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk, who is on trial for fraud, embezzlement and ethical breaches.</p><p>Hwang was indicted in 2006 after his claims to have created the world's first cloned human embryo stem cell were ruled to be bogus.</p><p>Prosecutors claim Hwang used ba...

SKOREA-HEALTH-STEMCELL-HWANG-TRIAL

2009-08-24T00:00:49Z

South Korea's disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk (C) smiles as he walks into a court in Seoul on August 24, 2009. Hwang is on trial for fraud, embezzlement and other charges after his claim that he created the first cloned human stem cells was ruled to be bogus. AFP PHOTO / PARK JI-HWAN (Photo credit should read PARK JI-HWAN/AFP/

S. Korean firm to open major dog cloning centre

2010-02-25T20:26:49Z

<div><p>A South Korean biotechnology firm will early next year open a centre capable eventually of producing up to 1,000 cloned dogs annually, a company executive said Friday.</p><p>"We need this new facility to turn dog cloning services into a full-fledged business," Cho Seong-Ryul, director of RNL Bio, told A...

Clone ranger sniffs out airport drugs

2010-02-25T21:26:24Z

<div><p>A cloned sniffer dog has proved itself smarter than the average pup by detecting drugs at South Korea's main airport just weeks after starting service, officials said Wednesday.</p><p>The dog, named Tosun, detected three grams (0.1 of an ounce) of narcotics in an envelope stored in a tightly zipped bag at South Korea puts duplicated sniffer dogs to work in airport</div><div><p>South Korea has put cloned dogs on patrol to sniff out drugs at customs. Six genetic duplicates of a single Labrador retriever have been working at the country's main Incheon international airport and three other customs check...

Iran says it is first in Mideast to clone a cow

2010-02-26T10:44:26Z

<div><p>Iranian scientists have become the first in the Middle East to clone a cow as part of the country's stem cell research, the leader of the project said Saturday.</p><p>The male cow, named Bonyana, was born Saturday in the city of Isfahan in central Iran, said Dr.

EU ministers leave open possibility of clone food

2010-02-26T18:10:46Z

<div><p>EU farm ministers revived the row over 'Frankenfoods' Monday by retaining the possibility of cloned animal products being sold in Europe, despite scientific uncertainty and Green opposition.</p><p>Meeting in Luxembourg, the agriculture ministers agreed a set of new rules for the ...

South Korea Stem Cells

2009-04-30T15:01:39Z

Supporters of disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk shout slogans during a rally calling for him to continue his research in front of the Health Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. South Korea is moving to lift its three-year ban on human stem cell researches, the practice the country banned after disgraced cloning ex...

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