MetaFilter posts tagged with DNA and cloning

Learn.Genetics

netbros — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:35:03 -0800

grumblebee's post about cell size and scale the other day was quite fascinating. Pulling back to the home for that site, the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah delivers educational materials on genetics, bio-science and health topics ranging from stem cells to gene therapy, and from epigenetics to heredity. Explore the neurobiology of normal and addicted brains and the genetic contribution to this chronic disease.

New and...improved?

FormlessOne — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:44:44 -0800

U.S. Denies Patent for a Too-Human Hybrid - what happens when your DNA violates a patent? Not sure where to begin on this one.

CATGee.com

crunchland — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:48:11 -0800

the world's first personal DNA storage & sampling kit ~ Save, share, and celebrate your DNA. ”Your very being, saved on a swab, for all eternity”

mammoth clone

stbalbach — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:41:08 -0800

Cells obtained from the well-preserved legs of a mammoth found last summer in Russia's far-northern Yakutia region are "conditionally alive" and could provide the DNA needed to resurrect the long-extinct tuskers.

Cloned Cat

elpapacito — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:12:10 -0800

Cloned Cat Doesn't look and behave like the original cat.Public perception of cloning is clone=original, but we have the proof it isn't always true. Isn't that the proof complex systems doesn't always work like we want, so it'd better to slow down the marketing of genetic engineered food ?

raedyn — Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:57:50 -0800