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...editorial appeared in Thursday's Los Angeles Times: On Tuesday, executives at the British biotechnology firm PPL Therapeutics proudly carted out five cute piglets that their Virginia-based researchers recently succeeded in cloning. It's...
...an adult mammal, has produced the first cloned pigs, raising hopes of a new source of transplants for humans. PPL Therapeutics, which cloned Dolly three years ago, said today that five healthy piglets were born March 5 in Blacksburg, Va...
...journal Science. A team at PPL Therapeutics Inc. of Blacksburg, Va...vice president of research for PPL Therapeutics, said his team already has...said. PPL is a subsidiary of PPL Therapeutics in Scotland that in 1997 helped...
...adult organs," Perry said. "They also are amiable to transplant surgery." Work on the litter of pigs cloned by PPL Therapeutics Inc. of Scotland involved some of the same researchers who cloned a sheep called Dolly. That was the first use...
...disease's molecular underpinnings and accelerating tests of experimental drugs, said Alan Colman, research director for PPL Therapeutics, the Edinburgh-area biotechnology company that conducted the new work. Scientists haven't been completely stumped...
...us agree it's an essential step forward, but it's not a solution," says Alan Colman, research director of PPL Therapeutics in Edinburgh, Scotland. Besides getting rid of alpha-gal, it may be necessary to add four or five other genes...
...professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alan Colman, research director of the Scottish company PPL Therapeutics, said cloning technology will surely mature and improve. "Practice makes perfect, but is it ethical to practice...
...genetically modified so that their transplanted organs won't be rejected by humans. One of those companies was PPL Therapeutics, the Scottish group that worked with the Roslin Institute to produce Dolly. Scientists are aiming to cultivate...