Episode 7 - Cloning Monkey Embryos

On this week's episode, we talk with Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov. Dr. Mitalipov is an Assistant Scientist and a Co-Director of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University. We talk with Dr. Mitalipov about his recent breakthrough in cloning monkey embryos and the scientific methods that got him there.

• Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007 (see #9)
• Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer (Nature)
• Scientists Use Monkey Clones to Extract Stem Cells (NY Times)
• Researchers Clone Monkeys for Stem Cells (Reuters)
• Stem-Cell Researchers Clone Monkey Embryo (NPR)
• Scientists claim to clone monkey embryos (MSNBC)
• Scientists Claim to Clone Monkey Embryos (ABC News)
• Scientists Claim to Clone Monkey Embryos (CBC)
• Oregon Scientists Say They've Cloned First Primate and Generated Stem Cells (Wired Blog Network)
• If Cloning Humans is Wrong, So Is Cloning Monkeys (Wired Blog Network)