| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
Geotimes
August 2007
Erin Wayman |
DNA Holds Clues to Extinction A new DNA study is showing that mammoths were in decline before humans hunted them en masse.   |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2007
Stephen Albainy-Jenei |
Attack of the Pod Cows The FDA has endorsed food from cloned animals. While the agency's conclusions don't exactly herald the invasion of the farm-animal snatchers, they do provide an open opportunity for companies that are well-positioned in the industry. |
Salon.com
March 7, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
"Jurassic Park," eat your heart out Ecological historian Tim Flannery describes the days of megafauna, when 13-ton elephants and shoulder-height armadillos clomped around among humans... |
Geotimes
September 2007
Erin Wayman |
Baby Woolly Mammoth Frozen in Time Recently, an international team of researchers announced the discovery of a perfectly preserved months-old baby woolly mammoth that had been buried under western Siberia's thick permafrost for at least 10,000 years. |
Salon.com
January 31, 2001
Theresa Pinto Sherer |
Can two men make a baby? Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way... |
Salon.com
May 3, 1999
Dawn MacKeen |
The Clone Age Adventures in the new world of reproductive technology... |
Wired
April 2006
Steve Olson |
Bringing Back the Brontosaurus Digging for fossils is for dinosaurs. Today's animal trackers are using genomics to reconstruct, and one day resurrect, the original hot-blooded beast. |
Wired
October 2009
Gregg Easterbrook |
Gregg Easterbrook: Embrace Human Cloning Human clones, it is widely assumed, would be monstrous perversions of nature. Yet chances are, you already know one. They walk among us in the form of identical twins. |
Wired
January 2001
Brian Alexander |
(You)2 Human cloning has always been frightening, seductive - and completely out of reach. Not anymore... |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2005
Charly Travers |
Cloning Fluffy Pet cloners like Genetic Savings & Clone (GSC) are clearly part of a new market on the verge of breaking open, and the opportunity for the first movers in this field is quite large. While private now, biotech investors need to keep watch. |
Science News
January 13, 2007
Christen Brownlee |
Cloned Meat and Milk Are Safe, But They Won't Hit Stores Soon A Food and Drug Administration analysis concludes that food from cloned animals is safe, but the effort and expense involved in creating these animals means that products from them won't be in markets anytime soon. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Philip Yam & Kate Wong |
Updates: Whatever Happened to Natural Blood-Vessel Dilators? Also: updates on cloning mice and extinction by disease |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Andrew Curry |
Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam In theory, we could re-create conditions that last existed when mammoths walked the earth and the environment was healthier and more diverse. |
Smithsonian
August 2007
Crawford et al. |
Wild Things: Life as We Know It Mammoths, clownfish and traveling plants. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Charles Q. Choi |
Mammoth Sequences: A Hunt for DNA from the Extinct Titans of the Klondike Duane Froese and Ross MacPhee on an excavation dig to collect material that might hold Pleistocene genetic clues to mammoths |
Wired
January 2004
Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Geotimes
November 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Neanderthal DNA Unraveled Probing fossil DNA for the genetic information of a long-extinct species might sound like a feat fit for Hollywood. For two research teams, however, the stunt is starting to become reality, as they have begun to unravel the genetic code of Neanderthals. |
Salon.com
June 18, 2002
Scott Anderson |
Playing God Bush's bioethics czar Leon Kass wants to criminalize lifesaving medical research as violating the natural order of things. Would he have opposed wiping out smallpox? |
Salon.com
January 4, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"Cloning: Responsible Science or Technomadness?" A new book shows that ethical questions about replicating humans are less consequential than the procedure's threat to our biological diversity... |
Salon.com
May 21, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Clone free Francis Fukuyama warns that the combination of runaway biotechnology and individual freedom could lead to a social nightmare... |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Johan Bostrom |
Give a Dog a Clone The lack of products on the market is a common complaint about pioneering biotech companies, but Genetic Savings & Clone has sold five carbon-based products that purr when you stroke them. And the next offering will bark. |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001 |
To clone or not to clone? As two scientists threaten to begin human cloning "within weeks," scientists and ethicists say the two are acting irresponsibly... |
Wired
October 16, 2007
Ben Paynter |
Cloned Beef (and Pork and Milk): It's What's for Dinner With cloned meat already at market, can -- and should -- the FDA keep farmers from using cloning technology in the dairy, beef, and pork industries? |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2008
Michael Milstein |
5 Eco Crimes Unmasked by DNA Sleuths' High-Tech Spy Game New DNA databases have begun to help environmentalists and regulators uncover the truth behind everything from the origin of ivory from poached elephants to cheating in fishing contests. |
Wired
May 2001 |
Rants & Raves The ethical and commercial issues in human cloning depend in part on resolving its biggest biological problem - namely, safety... America's ideologically driven fear of "state interference" has allowed its corporations to be far more intrusive and abusive than any European government... |
Reason
April 2001
Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
Reason
November 2001
Sara Rimensnyder |
Cryptic Biodiversity By examining DNA, scientists have discovered new species of birds, reptiles, whales, and plants. Will this put more pressure on the Endangered Species Act? |
Scientific American
March 2009
David Appell |
Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming? As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Fringe's Human Mutant Not Possible, Says Expert We won't ever have to worry about Fringe's part-mole-rat, part-scorpion, part-human mutant in real life because it's not within the realm of possibility. |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2008
Henry Nicholls |
Water Retains DNA Memory of Hidden Species A team of scientists has demonstrated that DNA profiling could be a quick, effective and relatively cheap alternative to finding new species of animal life. |
Reason
October 2008
Greg Beato |
Man's Best Friend Forever Cloning dogs for love and profit |
Chemistry World
January 20, 2009
Nina Notman |
Raman hope for childless couples A non-invasive way to test the quality of sperm to be use in fertility treatments has been developed by UK scientists. |
Scientific American
November 2008
Barbara Juncosa |
The Role of Random Events in Extinction Chance disaster is a bigger extinction threat than once thought. |
Psychology Today
Sep/Oct 2007
Mark Teich |
A Man's Shelf Life As men age, their fertility decreases and the health risks to their unborn offspring skyrocket. But men who attend to their health can slow down the reproductive clock. |
Scientific American
March 2007 |
The Beef with Cloned Meat For Americans, the idea of cloned meat elicits distaste even in many confirmed carnivores. Is that gut reaction justified? From a food-safety standpoint, probably not. |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Jen Phillips |
Species Explosion What happens when you mix evolution with climate change? |
Science News
Janet Raloff |
Marine Pollution Spawns 'wonky Babies' Wonky? It's British slang for shaky, unreliable or unattractive. In Ceri Lewis's lexicon, it refers to the odd, off-kilter embryonic development that can occur. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come. |
Food Processing
February 2008 |
Just Say No to Clones Should the food industry should fund a forum to assess the advisability of clones in the food supply? The evidence presented here says "yes." |
Science News
September 18, 2004 |
Click and Clone The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah has an interactive Web site for middle or high school students that teaches the basics of somatic cell cloning, the type of cloning used to create Dolly the sheep. |
Smithsonian
September 2005
Daniel Glick |
Back From The Brink Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough U.S. environmental laws, dedicated researchers, and plenty of money and effort, success stories abound. |
Science News
January 19, 2008 |
Timeline: From the January 15, 1938, issue Radio is latest aid in battle against snow... Mass of new X-particles may have a wide range... Extinct mammoth was nearly 18 feet in length... |
