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Banco Genético Promete Clonar Animais de Estimação
An American businessman is setting up a gene bank so that pet owners can store the DNA of their beloved animals for eventual cloning. The venture, also involving Texas A&M University, is based on a US$2.3 million (HK$17.8 million) gift from an unidentified couple who want to clone their 12-year-old border collie, Missy, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Monday. The paper said the research team included Mark Westhusin, who cloned a cow in September, and Duane Kraemer, a biologist who was saving cells from endangered species for cloning should they become extinct. The idea is to sell people kits that can be taken to their vet, who would then scrape a few of the animal's cells from the abdomen or mouth in order to provide the DNA for cloning. The kits would cost less than US$1,000, while storing the DNA would cost US$50 to US$100 a year. According to the report, cloning Missy has proved trickier than cloning other animals such as sheep or cows because dogs have unusual reproductive cycles. Meanwhile, six identical calves conceived from a bull's cells that spent up to three months in vitro before being cloned could prove helpful for future gene manipulation methods, according to a study out yesterday. US and Japanese researchers said the results helped counter the belief that the long-term culture of donor cells would compromise or destroy the possibility of cloning. In fact, researchers from the University of Connecticut said, it might prove just the opposite. Pet owners may clone their beloved animals from gene bank ISSUE 1685 - Wednesday 5 January 2000 Procuram-se Contatos Imediatos de Quarto Grau By Telegraph Correspondent A JAPANESE television company is to film the sky above two Scottish hills for six months non-stop in an attempt to record a UFO.Berwick Law and Traprain Law, two extinct volcanoes which rise dramatically from the flat land on the south bank of the Firth of Forth, have gained a reputation among UFO enthusiasts recently for strange visitations. A film crew hired by a Japanese TV company plans to set up cameras on the roof of the Templar Lodge Hotel in the nearby town of Gullane, in the spring. The cameras will be trained on both hills and their footage will be broadcast on the internet. Stephen Prior, head of marketing at the Templar Lodge, said: "Some Japanese golfers on holiday here saw something strange up there, and word of this seems to have got back to Japan. There is a long Celtic tradition of fairies on the hills - traditionally, you wouldn't take your baby up there for fear of it being turned into a changeling." TV crew shoots for UFO in 6-month non-stop recording session Jovens Acreditam Mais em ETs MORE young people in Britain believe in aliens and ghosts than in God, according to a survey. Some 67 per cent of 15 to 24-year-olds had some belief in ghosts and 61 per cent in aliens, but only 39 per cent felt the same way about Christianity. The poll of 1,000 young people was carried out by Roar, a media consortium. A quarter of them said they did believe in ghosts, while 42 per cent said
there was probably something in it, a total of 67 per cent. Meanwhile, 22 per
cent said they believed in alien visitations and UFOs and 39 per cent thought
there was something to it. However, 23 per cent said they believed in
Christianity, while 16 per cent said there was probably something in it, a total
of 39 per cent. Outros sites ufológicos: SETI@home [The search for extraterrestrial intelligence] UFO & Aliens category - Looksmart Astrobiology: a new science for a new millennium [13 Dec '99] - British National Space Centre |
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