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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...
...Connecticut group's report, however, found that fully differentiated cells could prove useful in cloning, although they're still not sure why. Nearly 40% of these more mature cells developed to the blastocyst stage, at which point stem cells can be extracted, while only 4% of the more actively dividing cells did so. "That is good news for therapeutic cloning," notes Yang. From his research, Yang believes that most of the problems that occur in cloning occur after the blastocyst stage, when the embryo begins to divide to re-create all the tissue types in a developing fetus. "Based...
...Gain from Lieberman's Loss With the Connecticut Senator vowing to run as an independent, Republicans would be licking their chops - if only they had more confidence in their candidate
...Kean Jr. is being watched intensely, as is Rhode Island Republican Lincoln D. Chafee’s effort to keep his Senate seat in a race against Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse after narrowly winning his party’s primary. And who could forget the nationally spotlighted Senate race in Connecticut, which pits Democrat Edward “Ned” Lamont Jr. ’76 against former vice presidential candidate and incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman, now running as an independent, in what has turned into a referendum on the war in Iraq...
...today’s sentencing doesn’t close the case of the thief who made national headlines in June 2005, when he was caught carrying seven maps out of Yale’s Beinecke Library. Smiley will also be sentenced in October in Connecticut state court for larceny charges resulting from his thefts at Yale...