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  CNN.com - Nature - First cloned endangered species dies 2 days after birth - January 12, 2001
Noah, as the gaur was called, was born on January 8 in Iowa weighing 80 pounds.
The clone the gaur, scientists removed the nucleus from a cow's egg cell and replaced it with the nucleus of a gaur skin cell.
Bessie was one of 40 cows to have a cloned gaur embryo placed in her womb.
archives.cnn.com /2001/NATURE/01/12/cloned.gaur   (800 words)

  
 ACT Gaur Dies
Noah was the first animal to gestate in the womb of another species and survive through the late stages of fetal development.
Gaur, native to India and Burma, are brownish-fl animals with white legs, a pronounced shoulder hump, and horns that curve inward.
Noah, as the gaur was called, was born on January 8th in Des Moines, IA weighing 80 pounds.
www.grg.org /ACTgaur2.htm   (1506 words)

  
  CETOS - Cloning the Gaur
Noah is a Gaur, a strikingly colored, white footed member of the ox family that normally lives in Northern India.
Noah promises to be the "poster child" for a whole new generation of artificially created animals.
First, the animal being cloned is the gaur, Bos frontalis, the large wild ox native to the woodlands of rural India.
www.cetos.org /articles/cloninggaur.html   (1528 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Cloning a Comeback?
Bessie's gaur, named Noah and due to be born next month, was cloned from a single skin cell taken from a dead gaur, researchers report in a landmark scientific paper in the latest issue of the journal Cloning, to be released this week.
Noah's fetal heartbeat heralds the beginning of a new era of wildlife conservation in which endangered and even recently extinct animals may make dramatic comebacks through cloning techniques.
Because endangered clones will generally have to be born to mothers of a less endangered species, the work also promises behavioral scientists the chance to answer a host of fascinating questions.
washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A54858-2000Sep21?language=printer   (1703 words)

  
 bioethics.net :: Resources - Cloning & Animals
An attempt to clone an elephant - BBC's Simon Ingram reports that scientists in Thailand are attempting to clone an elephant from the preserved remains of a specimen that died almost 100 years ago.
Clone a wolly mammoth - CBS News Correspondent Thalia Assuras reports on the project to attempt to clone a wolly mammoth.
Cloning of on Tetra the monkey - CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reports on Tetra the monkey and the process of embryo splitting.
bioethics.net /resources/index.php?&cat=16&t=sub_pages   (468 words)

  
 Animals cloned
Noah is a gaur: a member of a species of large oxlike animals that are now rare in their homelands of India, Indochina and southeast Asia.
More recently the gaur's habitats of forests, bamboo jungles and grasslands have dwindled to the point that only roughly 36,000 are thought to remain in the wild.
And Noah will be just the first creature up the ramp of the ark of endangered species that we and other scientists are currently attempting to clone: plans are under way to clone the African bongo antelope, the Sumatran tiger and that favorite of zoo lovers, the reluctant-to-reproduce giant panda.
robby.nstemp.com /custom.html   (1324 words)

  
 April 20, 2001, Hour Two: Biotechnology and Endangered Species
Genetic material from the gaur cells was implanted into an egg taken from a cow, which was then carried to term in a regular female cow.
Noah died within 48 hours of birth from dysentery, which scientists said was unrelated to the cloning process.
The birth of "Noah," a cloned gaur, January 2001.
www.sciencefriday.com /pages/2001/Apr/hour2_042001.html   (430 words)

  
 Applied Genetics News: CLONING: Bringing Back Endangered Species
The gaur is a large, wild ox species with a hump-like ridge on its back and with white or yellow stockings on all four legs.
DNA analyses have confirmed that the nuclear genomes of the fetuses are B. gaurus in origin, and the cloned gaurs have exhibited typical embryonic and fetal development through the normal differentiation into complex tissues and organs.
Noah is due to be born in late November.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DED/is_3_21/ai_66520544/print   (668 words)

  
 Gaur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gaur (IPA gauɹ)-(Malayalam kattupothu; Bos gaurus, previously Bibos gauris) is a large, dark-coated ox of the hilly areas of South Asia and Southeast Asia, which may be found wild or domesticated.
At 7:30 PM on Monday, 8 January 2001, the first successful birth of a cloned animal that is a member of an endangered species occurred, a gaur named Noah at the Omaha Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
The Indian Bison or Gaur is called Adavi Dunna in the Telugu language which literally means " wild buffalo".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaur   (1157 words)

  
 India, Indian States, India States, Indian hotels, Indian News and Indian Tourism, India Travel
Gaur are said to look like the front of a water buffalo with the back of a domestic cow.
Where gaurs have not been disturbed, they are basically diurnal, being most active in the morning and late afternoon and resting during the hottest time of the day.
Gaur are not milked or put to work but given supplementary care while grazing in the woods, until they are slaughtered.
www.meghalayain.org /wiki-Gaur   (1654 words)

  
 ACT Clones a Gaur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The bovine surrogate mother is carrying the gaur fetus on a farm near Sioux City, Iowa, and is expected to give birth to " Noah" next month.
Using a technique developed by ACT in Worcester, MA scientists removed the DNA from one of Bessie's eggs and fused the egg with a skin cell taken from a living gaur, producing a genetically gaur egg that would be accepted by Bessie's immune system.
"But cloning is just one more tool to use along with the rest of the measures we already take to preserve species." Even some critics of cloning say the ACT researchers may have stumbled upon a positive use of the technology.
www.grg.org /ACTgaur.htm   (658 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How Cloning Works"
Noah was the first endangered animal to be cloned.
Although Noah died of an infection unrelated to the procedure, the experiment demonstrated that it is possible to save endangered species through cloning.
The recent success in cloning animals has sparked fierce debates among scientists, politicians and the general public about the use and morality of cloning plants, animals and possibly humans.
www.howstuffworks.com /cloning.htm   (287 words)

  
 CBS News | Scientists Clone Long-Dead Animal | April 9, 2003 01:26:00
Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was put to death in February after premature aging and disease marred her short existence.
Researchers in China, meanwhile, are working with rabbits as surrogates for cloned pandas, which are about the size of a stick of butter when they're born.
Scientists cloned a pair of Bantengs from frozen cells of one that died 23 years ago.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/04/08/tech/main548333.shtml   (1014 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How Cloning Works"
Noah was the first endangered animal to be cloned.
Although Noah died of an infection unrelated to the procedure, the experiment demonstrated that it is possible to save endangered species through cloning.
The recent success in cloning animals has sparked fierce debates among scientists, politicians and the general public about the use and morality of cloning plants, animals and possibly humans.
science.howstuffworks.com /cloning.htm   (219 words)

  
 Noah - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/2001
January 7 - The Wrestling promotion, ECW Airs it's final pay-per-view, Guilty as Charged before declaring Bankruptcy.
January 8 - Noah, a gaur, is born, the first individual of an endangered species to be cloned.
January 11 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/2001   (5513 words)

  
 AMNH Genomic Revolution
Noah, cloned gaur - Image courtesy of Advanced Cell Technology
Mammoths - © AMNH, art by Charles Knight
Cloned transgenic calves - Image courtesy of Advanced Cell Technology
www.amnh.org /exhibitions/genomics/0_home/credits.html   (355 words)

  
 the SKYSPY Conspiracytour
The snake is used as symbol for the double-helix DNA, the aesculaap doctors stick at their carwindow to get free parking (two curling snakes) and the bible animal that pursuaded Eve to bite the apple, which could be explained as the moment that the creators of the humans weren't necessery anymore to give birth.
In an article about the Raelian's stunt to announce the first cloned human an expert counts the worth of mediacoverage for the Elohim story on $500.000.000.
Despite predictions that the first cloned human (in this era) will not live very long, the announcement of this happening is major news and will bring up the next milestone of human history: when scientists will find clues to make life as long as it was in origin, hundreds of thousands of years!
www.skyspy.tv   (10675 words)

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