GENET news: Animal

30.11.2006

Vietnam succeeds in animal cloning

HANOI, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Biotechnology Institute has announced they have basically succeeded in cloning a kind of wild pigs, local newspaper Saigon Liberation reported Thursday. Local scientists have used cells of the pigs to conduct cloning research to serve biodiversity preservation purposes, the newspaper said.

• Xinhua, China (30.11.2006): Vietnam succeeds in animal cloning
• Thanh Nien Daily, Vietnam (30.11.2006): Local scientists report initial success in animal cloning

03.11.2006

Hypocrisy claim as tests on animals increase by 4.5%

ANIMAL testing in Scotland has grown sharply despite government assurances that the controversial practice will be reduced, new figures have revealed. The Scotsman has obtained detailed figures on scientific experiments conducted on living creatures in Scotland.

• The Scotsman, UK (02.11.2006): Hypocrisy claim as tests on animals increase by 4.5%

31.10.2006

Hog-wild for pig organs: Hub doc’s pet project: animal-to-people transplants

Harvesting pig organs and transplanting them in humans may not be that far off, says one doctor, whose Boston-area lab is genetically engineering swine, putting their organs in baboons and waiting to see if it works well enough to try in people.

«I see the possibility in the future of having pigs available that would be tailored to have the best possible kidneys or best possible liver or lungs to transplant into a human being,” said Dr. David Sachs, director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

• Boston Herald, USA (29.10.2006): Hog-wild for pig organs: Hub doc’s pet project: animal-to-people transplants