Cloning

Genes of endemic species in Tuz Lake to provide agricultural sustainability

In a groundbreaking initiative, genes extracted from endemic plant species native to Tuz Lake region, which supplies the majority of the country's salt, will be harnessed to combat drought and enhance agricultural sustainability.

This will be accomplished by passing these genes on to plants that can withstand drought, such as wheat, rye, barley, clover and other similar species.

Scientists clone first rhesus monkey using new method

Scientists in China on Jan. 16 announced that they have cloned the first healthy rhesus monkey, a two-year-old named Retro, by tweaking the process that created Dolly the sheep.

Primates have proved particularly difficult to clone, and the scientists overcame years of failure by replacing the cloned cells that would become the placenta with those from a normal embryo.

World’s largest plant is a vast seagrass meadow in Australia

Scientists have discovered the world's largest plant off the Australia coast _ a seagrass meadow that has grown by repeatedly cloning itself.

Genetic analysis has revealed that the underwater fields of waving green seagrass are a single organism covering 180 square kilometers through making copies of itself over 4,500 years.

Baby abandoned in Thessaloniki

A newborn boy, who was found abandoned at the entrance of a Thessaloniki apartment block on Tuesday, was later being treated at the northern port city's Ippokrateio Hospital, along with the infant's 24-year-old mother who was traced to a nearby apartment.

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