If you are a fan of chemically enhanced fruits you are in for a treat. Scientist at the University of California may have discovered a way to block harmful ethylene gas which slowly ages fruit.
Many produce providers spray a chemical compound such as EthylBloc for flowers and SmartFresh for fruits and vegetables to delay [...]
New Chemical To help make fruits last Longer!
Designer Cloning may Produce SuperHumans Someday
A recently developed technique that might eventually produce facsimiles of human embryonic stem cells from skin cells was lauded President Bush and the Catholic Church as an ethical alternative to using human embryos for research. But it “opens a whole new can of worms” — the possibility of creating chimera humans — one researcher says.
The [...]
Cow-Human Embryo is this a Better Way?
Scientists in the U.K. claim — claim — to have created embryos and stem cells by inserting human DNA into cow eggs. It’s raising hackles as you might expect.
The work, led by Lyle Armstrong at Newcastle University, skirts laws that prevent piddling with human eggs in the same manner.
“Animal eggs are much easier to obtain [...]
South Korean Firm Will Clone Your Pet
A Korean company called RNL Bio is working with the scientists who cloned the first canine named Snuppy. The company is offering to clone deceased pets for the tidy sum of $150,000. A company spokeswoman says that the first customer, Bernann McKunney from California, has already signed up to have her dead pit bull [...]
FDA gives blessing to food from cloned animals
By Missy Ryan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government ruled on Tuesday that meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as other food, but pressed firms that produce clones to hold off on bringing them into the food supply.
“Extensive evaluation of the available data has not identified any subtle hazards [...]
