Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Ten years ago with news of Dolly’s cloning… came a huge flow of money to investigate how human  minds may be improved, healed, and reproduced. How has this storm of ideas helped to improve or limit your workplace…? 

Today, at Physorg.com are key dates in the history of cloning:

1953: Cambridge University scientist James Watson and Francis Crick determine the double-helix structure of DNA, the chemical codebook for creating life

1962: Oxford University biologist John Gurdon clones frogs from differentiated cells.

1963: British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane coins the term "clone," a derivation of the Greek word "klon", meaning "twig."

1996 (July 5): Ian Wilmut and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, Scotland, create Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from adult cells. Goal is to have sheep that produce valuable proteins for drugs in their milk.

1998: First cloned mice, an important lab tool for biologists, created by Teruhiko Wakayama and Ryuzo Yanagimachi at the University of Hawaii . First cloned cows, born in Ishikawa Prefecture Livestock Research Centre, .

2000: The first cloned pigs, created by a commercial offshoot of the Roslin Institute. Ultimate goal is to use pigs to grow transplant organs for humans. creates first cloned goat, but animal dies after 36 hours with lung abnormalities.

2001: Birth of first cloned animal from an endangered species, an Asian ox called a gaur. The clone, created by a Massachusetts company, Advanced Cell Technology, dies 48 hours later.

2002: First cloned rabbit, by researchers at 's National Institute of Agronomic Research. "Idaho Gem" becomes the world's first cloned mule, an animal that is sterile. First cloning of a cat, called Cc:, by Texas A and M University, a commercial venture targeted at pet-lovers. A renegade sect, the Raelians, announces that it have created the world's first cloned baby. The unsubstantiated claim spurs many countries to tighten laws against reproductive cloning.

2003 (Feb 14): Dolly the sheep is put down after developing a lung infection and arthritis. Her premature death is seen by some as a warning that cloning is flawed and dangerous. Ralph, the first cloned rat, is born.

2005: South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk claims he has created the world's first cloned human embryos and used them to make patient-specific stemcells.

2006: Stemcell and cloning research is rocked as Hwang's claim, which was published in a top peer-reviewed journal, turns out to be one of the greatest frauds in scientific history. A separate claim that he created the world's first cloned dog, an Afghan hound called Snuppy, is validated.

Are you concerned about what this advance has done to change science and business…?