From: Brett Paatsch (paatschb@ocean.com.au)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 20:56:29 MDT
Robert Bradbury wrote:
>
> This article discusses a breakthrough in amplifying the number
> of stem cells that can be produced from a sample.
>
> Umbilical cord stem cells multiplied in the lab
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992949
>
> I would *strongly* urge any extropians who plan to have children
> in the future that they make a point of storing the umbilical
> cord blood.
>
<snip>
> [Note, it isn't clear that using self-sourced eggs to produce
> a self-clone is any more successful than "normal" cloning which
> much of the time has to use non-self-sourced eggs. It would
> be interesting to know if the eggs used to clone Dolly or
> any of the other animals were self-sourced.]
>
According to Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell's book, "The Second Creation"
(pub 2000, p15), the egg for Dolly was non-self-sourced.
Brett
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