A new study published in Nature Communications reports the successful cloning of a rhesus monkey.    Prof Robin Lovell-Badge FRS FMedSci, … read more

A study, published in Nature Communications, looked at using freeze-dried somatic cells to produce cloned mice.   Prof Dusko Ilic, … read more

Scientists publishing in Cell attempt the cloning of macaque monkeys using somatic cell nuclear transfer. read more

Just three weeks after the scientific world marked the 20th anniversary of the birth of Dolly the sheep, new research, carried out by The University of Nottingham and published in Nature Communications, has shown that four clones derived from the same cell line as Dolly reached their 8th birthdays in good health. Nottingham’s Dollies – Debbie, Denise, Dianna and Daisy – have just celebrated their 9th birthdays. They are part of a unique flock of cloned sheep under the care of Professor Kevin Sinclair, an expert in developmental biology, in the School of Biosciences. read more

Korean company Sooam Biotech produced the UK’s first cloned dog for the winner of a competition. read more

South Korean firm Sooam Biotech announced a competition for UK dog owners to have their pet cloned. read more

The Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) ruled that meat produced from cloned cattle is not significantly different from that produced from conventionally bred animals. read more

In further developments on the cloned cow story, it has emerged that meat from the offspring of cloned cows has been sold and eaten in the UK. read more

Reports have emerged that milk from a cow that was bred from a clone has been on sale in the UK. read more

Scientists in China have successfully demonstrated a new cloning technique which uses mouse skin cells which have been genetically reprogrammed to become embryonic stem cell-like cells called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). Furthermore, the scientists showed that they could successfully produce cloned adult mice from these cells, demonstrating their viability. read more

Maverick would-be cloner Panayiotis Zavos has once again claimed to be able to clone a human being; this time, he claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and implanted 11 of them into the wombs of four women. However, he provided no credible proof of this, and scientists remain sceptical. read more

Scientists in Japan have successfully cloned mice that had been frozen for 16 years, raising the possibility that extinct species could be brought back to life. read more

Samuel Wood, a researcher at the Stemagen Coroporation in La Jolla, California, created a cloned embryo using his own skin cells, which were injected into donated eggs. read more

It is over 10 years since the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep was announced. Since then, research in the field has advanced quickly and it is predicted that cloned meat will enter the foodchain, somewhere in the world, in the next 5 years. Before then it is likely that the offspring of cloned animals will be introduced. The Science Media Centre invited experts on animal cloning and biotechnology to brief the media on issues including how soon cloned meat could enter the food chain and what the potential benefits of this could be in terms of the cost and environmental impact of food. read more

As investigations from South Korea confirm the scientific community’s worst fears about the level of fraudulent data from Hwang’s team, the SMC has responded to the media’s requests for a background briefing about the impact of the crisis on cloning research. The following scientists answered questions from journalists on cloning research in the UK: Alison Murdoch, Stephen Minger, Chris Shaw, Robin Lovell-Badge, Anne McLaren. read more

The Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk was found to have fabricated findings in his research into human embryo cloning, which had the potential to provide sources of stem cells for use in treatments of disease. read more

South Korea’s top human cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk has apologised and resigned after his colleagues announced that he had fabricated results in his stem-cell research. Several UK-based experts in the field have reacted to the news. read more

Recent progress in stem cell research has fuelled hopes of stem cells becoming a treatment for a wide range of diseases from Alzheimer’s disease to spinal chord injury. Scientists briefed the media on new research published in the ‘Lancet’ which looks at the feasibility of an alternative to cloning – to use stem cell banks instead. read more

UK stem cell research leaders comment on the resignation of Professor Hwang Woo-suk, a cloning pioneer from South Korea, who today apologised for using human eggs from his own researchers. read more

Panos Zavos of the Andrology Institute of America was in town again to announce his second unsuccessful attempt to clone a human and John Gonzalez was there to recruit sperm donors. We found experts to comment. read more