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Click and Clone
The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah has an interactive Web site that teaches the basics of somatic cell cloning, the type of cloning used to create Dolly the sheep. The central focus of the click-and-clone exercise—to clone a brown mouse named Mimi—is based on a real experiment performed by researchers at […]
- Health & Medicine
Motor Ways: Gene mutation impairs muscle coordination
Scientists have identified a gene mutation that appears to cause the motor impairment that occurs in a rare disorder called Joubert syndrome.
- Animals
Pirates of the Amphibian: Males fertilize eggs of another guy’s gal
For the first time among amphibians, scientists have found frogs that sneak their sperm onto egg clutches left by another mating pair.
