Happy Birthday Snuppy! Snuppy is the world's first cloned dog, created by a team lead by controversial Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk. According to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper, Snuppy weighs
about 63 pounds and feasted on an ice cream cake and doggy treats for his birthday celebration.
Dr. Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh and stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk with Snuppy shortly after the first cloned dog's birth.
Family Photo: Snuppy stands next to the male
Afghan hound (left) from which he was cloned. Snuppy's surrogate mother
was a yellow Labrador. Reuters/Seoul National University
The act would violate President Bush's executive order
that no federal money can be spent on stem cell research that destroys
embryos created after August 9, 2001. The president has promised to
veto the bill, which has already passed in the House but stalled in the
Senate. Frist did say he expects a vote in the Senate this year.
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Scientists Grow Their Own Lungs
Scientists at Drexel University and St. Christopher's Hospital for
Children, in Philadelphia, have grown three-dimensional lung tissue
using a "hydrogel." The home-grown organs could be used to repair the
lungs of children who are born with insufficient lung development
(which causes 2,800 newborn deaths in the U.S. every year) and other
pulmonary diseases. They published their research in Tissue Engineering, according to a press release from the journal.
The co-editor-in-chief of Tissue Engineering Peter
Johnson said the work brings us a "step closer to realizing this goal
which we hope will be applicable to all organs in the future."
Wired News recently
published a story about research on repairing spinal cords using
hydrogels, the same type of structure the researchers used to build the
lung tissue.
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