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Until now, the genetic traceability of meat hasn't been much of a public health issue in the U.S. But with the USDA recall and the FDA's Jan. 15 approval of cloned-animal food products, Cunningham thinks Americans will want to know where the food in their grocery store is coming from. A 2007 poll by the Consumers Union found, in fact, that 89% of consumers would prefer that cloned foods be distinguished with labels. "This idea that all our food can be anonymous, trucked from anywhere in the world with its origins lost along...
Eighteen months ago, the digital-art powerhouse launched its first overseas studio in Singapore. The 170 employees come from 33 nations, and together they make sure that Luke Skywalker's animated cloak swings naturally in the TV series Clone Wars and that Jackie Chan slides effortlessly down the Eiffel Tower in Rush Hour 3. Like their colleagues back at Lucasfilm's San Francisco headquarters, the Singapore crew members work in jeans and decorate their cubicles with their favorite Star Wars action figures. But while years of experience and Yoda-level technical skill are prerequisites for joining Lucasfilm's U.S. team...
...animal's genetic duplicate is produced through somatic nuclear transfer, in which an egg cell is emptied of its genetic material and filled with a regular cell nucleus from a donor?a clone is born...
...thinks goats, cows and pigs will be safe. It doesn't have enough information yet on sheep. Some people are upset that clone-derived meat won't be labeled, keeping consumers in the dark...
Lo’s goal for the past year has been to clone the main enzyme involved in reverse transcription, the process by which viruses, including HIV, make DNA and begin taking over human cells...