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...Researchers at University of Connecticut may have done just that. A report released in Nature Genetics Sunday by Xiangzhong Yang and Tao Cheng showed that by using a specific type of fully mature adult cell, they could improve the chances that they would produce a cloned embryo. Yang's team relied on the same technique that was used to create both Dolly and Snuppy, but instead of starting with cells that are still capable of dividing - like the mammary cell that created Dolly and the skin cell that became Snuppy - they used blood cells near the end of their life...
...fact, Yang's findings fly in the face of conventional wisdom in the cloning field, which held that cloning, which involves turning back the clock on adult cells, worked better with younger, more "embryo"-like cells. The less that the cloning process has to undo, the theory goes, the more successful the technique will be. In fact, there was good evidence to support this theory: In previous studies embryonic stem cells, which can generate all of the body's cell types, produced clones ten times more efficiently than adult stem cells, which can develop into only a restricted number...
...mails and instant messages, some of them sexually suggestive, that he allegedly sent to several current and former teenage male pages in the House of Representatives; in Washington. As chairman of the House Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, Foley introduced legislation last summer to shield children from adult exploitation over the Internet. In a statement, the Congressman, who was a deputy Republican whip and until his abrupt departure had been expected to win re-election in November, apologized for "letting down my family and the people of Florida...
DIED. Maureen Daly, 85, author of the breathy, happy 1942 teen novel Seventeenth Summer, who is credited with launching the genre of modern young-adult literature; in Palm Desert, Calif. The best-selling book, which Daly wrote when she was a teenager, detailed a romance between two high schoolers in a Midwestern lakeside village. Of its origins, she said, "I was so wildly happy about love and life at a particular time of my existence, I wanted to get all that fleeting excitement down on paper before it passed or I forgot the true feelings...
...animated orange cat? C’mon. But “Snakes on a Plane” was an internet hit and “The Ant Bully” was, after all, one of those feel-good, CGI family flicks. Unfortunately for Samuel L. Jackson, the young adult male demographic seemed to enjoy spoofing “Snakes on a Plane” more than actually paying to see it. And “The Ant Bully” was deemed a poor man’s “Cars,” disappearing under the flood...