LOS occurs naturally in cattle. It is seen at higher rates with any assisted reproductive technologies and is not a problem caused specifically by cloning.

The Food and Drug Administration’s labeling policy requires that foods only be labeled if there have been significant changes in its nutritional composition, or if there are any changes in other health-related characteristics, such as allergenicity, toxicity or composition. Based on scientific studies, because the milk and meat products from cloned animals and their progeny are nutritionally equivalent to their conventional counterparts, they would not be required to be labeled. See similar questions...

Decades of research has shown that cloned animals are as healthy as conventional animals. A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) review found “the health and well being of somatic cell clones approximated those of normal individuals as they advance into the juvenile stage. Somatic cell cloned cattle reportedly were physiologically, immunologically, and behaviorally normal.” See similar questions...

Cloning will be used primarily for breeding purposes. These animals are very costly and will represent the most valuable breeding stock; consumers are unlikely to eat an animal clone. They will eat food from animals that are the offspring of clones, which are conventionally bred and are not clones themselves. See similar questions...

Any animal conceived through any assisted reproductive technique — AI, embryo transfer, etc. — has a slightly higher risk of neonatal death. In the hands of skilled scientists, the neonatal death rate of cloned animals approaches that of animals produced by in vitro fertilization. Within hours or days of birth, there are no health differences between clones and non-clones, according to an NAS review panel. See similar questions...

In January 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a final risk assessment on meat and milk products from animal clones and their offspring which concluded that these products are as safe as conventionally produced food products. Currently, there are no known meat and milk products from cloned animals and their offspring in the marketplace. See similar questions...

Animal clones will primarily be used as breeding stock to improve the health and quality of animals used for food production. So, most consumers will likely never eat a meat or dairy products from an animal clone; rather, meat and milk products in the marketplace will come from the offspring of animal clones. These offspring would be bred through other conventional breeding techniques and not be clones themselves. See similar questions...

In general, Leo's clones provide an excellent way of solving any organizational problem. The fundamental principle is this: Clones create multiple views of data. For example, whenever I have a task to do, say a new feature to implement, or a non-trivial bug to fix, I create a new headline to represent that task. Let's call such a headline a task headline. By convention, I enclose the headline in parentheses and put an @ignore in the body text of the headline, but that's just a convention I use. See similar questions...

its name implies, the PIXImus is built for automatic acquisition and analysis of bone and tissue of a mouse (10-50g). The PIXImus II has software that can analyze mice and other animals outside of this range, like ob\ob and infant mice, with some manual input. The imaging window (80x65mm) is large enough for the body of a mouse or similar sized animals, but will miss a portion of the head on larger mice. See similar questions...

Women are three times more likely than men to develop carpal tunnel syndrome, perhaps because the carpal tunnel itself may be smaller in women than in men. The dominant hand is usually affected first and produces the most severe pain. Persons with diabetes or other metabolic disorders that directly affect the body's nerves and make them more susceptible to compression are also at high risk. Carpal tunnel syndrome usually occurs only in adults. See similar questions...

A:The companies that fit our criteria tend to be small (generally under $100 million market cap, and often under $20 million), but they must be large enough to absorb modest buying by the limited number of subscribers we're allowing into the service. We're carefully and gradually increasing our subscriber base toward our maximum of 500, and are watching the effect our publication has on the shares of the companies we pick. See similar questions...

The National Zoo is a world leader at breeding endangered species. Our giant pandas are part of a breeding program that carefully matches potential giant panda parents in order to keep the population genetically healthy well into the future. On July 9, 2005, Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub. We learned on August 2, 2005, that the cub is male. On October 17, when he was 100 days old, he was named Tai Shan by a vote open to the public. More than 200,000 votes were cast. See similar questions...

Equine: Recommended for use with a high-frequency portable x-ray machine 3M™ Asymetrix™ Fast Detail Screens: See similar questions...

SGD does not keep any yeast clones. They may be ordered from the ATCC. Invitrogen sells "GeneStorm Yeast Expressing Clones" containing S. cerevisiae open reading frames in an expression vector (search the website for "yeast clone"). See similar questions...

Embryos are lost in any form of reproduction — including sexual reproduction. In the hands of skilled practitioners, cloning success rates approach other forms of assisted reproduction. See similar questions...

For switchgrass, the best performing cultivars have been "Alamo" for the deep South and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S., "Kanlow" for the mid-Atlantic region, and "Cave-in-Rock" for more northerly locations where the growing season is shorter and greater cold tolerance is required. Among the tree crops, willows grow best in the North-East and North Central regions, and hybrid poplar in the Great Lakes states and Pacific North-West. See similar questions...

In general, for women under 40 (after having one child with Down syndrome), the chance of having another baby with Down syndrome is 1 percent. The chance for Down syndrome is also known to increase with the mother's age and, after age 40, a mother would simply have the risk based on her age at delivery. It is important to know that about 75 percent of babies with Down syndrome are born to women under 35. This is due to the fact that women under 35 have more babies than women over 35. See similar questions...

Your animal’s safety is our primary concern. Prior to anesthesia each patient is given a thorough physical exam, a variety of laboratory tests may be run to determine if there are serious or unseen conditions that would compromise the animal’s ability to tolerate anesthesia. Medical conditions that can be corrected or supported with therapy prior to anesthesia will be treated. See similar questions...

With Autosomal Dominant PKD, the only form of PKD so far identified and confirmed in cats, two genetic negative parents cannot produce a genetically positive offspring unless that offspring is a fresh mutation. See the discussion on autosomal-dominant inheritance below for further details. See similar questions...