hey murray==
how are you doing?
human cloning brought you out of hibernation
exciting
hopefully the public will recognize and accept "therapeutic cloning".
I just finished events of the funeral for my mother
trying to move on
I've missed the listserve
skimmed and deleted a lot
doesn't look like anyone is clued in (yet) to :
genomic studies and
Parkinsons -- and Alzheimers
actually alpha-synuclein and tau protiens--
actually proto-fibrils and fibrils.....
and, some NSAIDs block protofibril formation (non-COX pathway)
and there is a vaccine for Alzheimers
and a better one on the way
what really causes apoptosis anyway?
an array of genes
to be announced?
do we now know a fundamental cause?
I should dig out references.
A month ago a PD study was done in Iceland ,
going back 10 generations.
the paper is free online.
The company that did the study
is taking out over 300 patents
late onset PD (most common) joins the rest as a genetic disease
and during the past month
genomic comparisons have been made between
"normal" and Parkinsonian genomes.
there is a discussion of techniques for interptreting the statistics
of this process
that is being termed a "paradigm shift" for looking at genomes.
I wonder if I know someone who could look at my DNA--expensive.
Is your back better?
how is your job affected?
has PD amplified what is going on?
major winter storm moving in
all my hatches aren't battened down yet.
a long loud lonely howl is wailing
it may be the wind
from the prairie
Ray
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>Timeline of major developments in cloning
>
>October 1990: National Institutes of Health officially begin the
>Human Genome Project.
>
>July 1995: Scottish scientists clone two sheep, named
>Megan and Morag, from differentiated embryo cells.
>
>February 1997: Scottish scientists clone an adult mammal for the
>first time, producing a lamb named Dolly, from a 6-year-old ewe,
>using tissue taken from the ewe's udder.
>
>July 1997: Scottish scientists clone Polly, a Poll Dorset
>lamb, from skin cells grown in a lab and genetically altered to
>contain a human gene.
>
>July 1998: Researchers at the University of Hawaii clone
>50 mice in three generations from a single mouse.
>
>April 1999: Geneticists at Tufts University in Massachusetts
>clone three goats, altering the goats' genetic code to produce
>a protein in their milk to treat heart attacks and strokes.
>
>2000: Oregon researchers produce rhesus monkey named Tetra
>by splitting early-stage embryos and then implanting the pieces
>into the mother.
>
>November 2001: Massachusetts research company reports it has
>cloned the first human embryo, a development it said was aimed
>at producing genetically matched replacement cells for patients
>with a wide range of diseases.
>
>Read the story around the world...
>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/updates/story.html?f=/news/updates/stories/20011125/world-533020.html
>
>http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001541836,00.html
>
>http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=125282
>
>http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20011125_1830.html
>
>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2001/nov/25/112500685.html
>
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