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That 'Familiar' Voice on the Other End Might Not Be

FTC Warns of 'Terrifying'
Phone Scam Driven by AI

Mar 23, 2023 9:02 AM CDT

FTC Warns of 'Terrifying' Phone Scam Driven by AI

Agency says voice cloning can make caller sound like a loved one begging for money

(Newser) - Many of us have heard of the old hoax in which victims receive phone calls from "police" or a "doctor" (actually scammers) saying that a loved one is in trouble and needs money sent stat. Now, in what NPR says "sounds like a plot from a science...

Nigeria President Denies Being Replaced by Clone

President Has to Tell His Nation:
I'm Alive, I'm Not a Clone

Dec 3, 2018 6:00 AM CST

President Has to Tell His Nation: I'm Alive, I'm Not a Clone

Nigeria's Buhari slams 'ignorant and irreligious' rumors

(Newser) - Former President Obama had " birthers " to contend with when he was president. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has deathers. At a conference in Poland on Sunday, the leader addressed persistent rumors that he had died and been replaced by a lookalike or a clone, reports Reuters . "It'...

Streisand on Cloning Her Dog: 'I Was So Devastated'

Streisand:
This Is Why
I Cloned
My Dog

Mar 4, 2018 9:49 AM CST

Streisand: This Is Why I Cloned My Dog

(Newser) - Barbra Streisand revealed this week that three of her dogs are clones, and now she's explaining why. Seems the death of her trusty dog Samantha led Streisand to ease the pain with DNA technology. "I was so devastated by the loss of my dear Samantha, after 14 years...

Streisand's Dogs Are Clones of Her Other Dog

Streisand Had Her
Dog Cloned, Twice

Feb 27, 2018 12:13 PM CST

Streisand Had Her Dog Cloned, Twice

She harvested cells before first dog died

(Newser) - Two of Barbra Streisand's three dogs are clones, the iconic singer reveals in her new cover interview with Variety . Before Samantha, Streisand's Coton du Tulear, died at age 14 in 2017, Streisand had cells taken from the dog's mouth and stomach that were then used to clone...

Science Takes Big Step Toward Being Able to Clone Humans

22 Years After Dolly, Another
Breakthrough in Cloning

Jan 24, 2018 12:44 PM CST

22 Years After Dolly, Another Breakthrough in Cloning

Researchers clone primates for 1st time

(Newser) - For the first time, researchers have used the cloning method that produced Dolly the sheep to create two healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the same with humans, the AP reports. Since Dolly's birth in 1996, scientists have cloned nearly two dozen...

Big Breakthrough
Could Mean Pig
Organs in Humans

NEW STUDY

Aug 11, 2017 9:34 AM CDT

Big Breakthrough Could Mean Pig Organs in Humans

Scientists who've created genetically modified piglets say perhaps in 2 years

(Newser) - Pig organs have long been eyed as transplant options for humans, as the organs are about the same size and pigs are plentiful, but it's been challenging to overcome the human immune system's possible rejection of such organs. Now, in what one medical expert tells the New York ...

Diller, von Furstenberg
Clone Their Dog (Twice)

Mar 21, 2016 11:20 AM CDT

Diller, von Furstenberg Clone Their Dog (Twice)

Billionaire and his wife now have 2 puppy clones

(Newser) - Barry Diller loves his dog, Shannon, so much that he and wife Diane von Furstenberg cloned her—twice. The IAC chairman and the fashion designer likely paid as much as $100,000 for the cloning, Page Six reports, and a rep for Diller confirms they now have two new puppy...

5% of China's Beef to Come From Huge Cloning Factory

Dec 1, 2015 8:44 AM CST

5% of China's Beef to Come From Huge Cloning Factory

BoyaLife says it will produce 100K bovine embryos per year

(Newser) - Facing a serious meat shortage as its population continues to grow and industrialize, China is set to open the world's largest animal-cloning factory in the first half of 2016. But it's not just cloning and raising cattle for beef. Commercial genetics company BoyaLife , which is building the center...

Netscape and
Joe Camel,
Class of '18
Never Knew Ye

mindset list

Aug 26, 2014 11:42 AM CDT

Netscape and Joe Camel, Class of '18 Never Knew Ye

Saturday morning cartoons not a big thing for them

(Newser) - Kids these days, with their Firefox and Chrome … Members of the incoming Class of 2018 probably never used Netscape or got hooked on Saturday morning cartoons, according to an annual list apparently aimed at making you feel old. Beloit College in Wisconsin notes in its yearly Mindset List that...

Team Clones Stem Cells
From 75-Year-Old's Skin

Apr 18, 2014 7:56 AM CDT

Team Clones Stem Cells From 75-Year-Old's Skin

Technique could be used to produce tissue perfectly suited to patients

(Newser) - A team of researchers has made a sure-to-be controversial breakthrough in both stem cell and cloning research, creating stem cells from two adults using cloning techniques. The researchers took DNA from skin cells from two men, aged 35 and 75, and injected it into unfertilized eggs whose DNA had been...

Scientists Hail
'Revolutionary'
Stem Cell
Breakthrough

Jan 29, 2014 9:44 AM CST

Scientists Hail 'Revolutionary' Stem Cell Breakthrough

Scientists find they can make them using blood cells, acid

(Newser) - A new discovery promises to make stem cell research cheaper, faster, and less controversial to boot. Scientists in Japan have shown that stem cells can be created in less than 30 minutes by simply dipping blood cells in acid; the new cells have been dubbed stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency, or...

China Has the World's
First 'Cloning Factory'

Jan 15, 2014 4:00 PM CST

China Has the World's First 'Cloning Factory'

BGI is producing about 500 pigs a year without Mother Nature

(Newser) - Remember when a cloned animal was a big deal? Welcome to the brave new world in Shenzhen, China, where the company BGI is churning out 500 cloned pigs a year, reports David Shukman at the BBC . Shukman got a tour of the facility and even watched the surgical procedure in...

Scientists Clone
'Unclonable' Tree

Nov 10, 2013 6:03 AM CST

Scientists Clone 'Unclonable' Tree

Critics thought John Muir's famed giant sequoia was too old to clone

(Newser) - Big news in the world of horticulture—literally. Scientists have managed to successfully clone a genetic replica of a famed giant sequoia. Three reasons why this is a big deal: The 70-foot tree was planted by John Muir, who had a heavy hand in the founding of Yosemite and Sequoia...

Dentist's Plan: Clone
John Lennon Using Tooth

Aug 22, 2013 10:21 AM CDT

Dentist's Plan: Clone John Lennon Using Tooth

Michael Zuk bought the rotting molar for $31K

(Newser) - Remember when a Canadian dentist bought one of John Lennon's teeth for $31,000 in November 2011? Turns out Michael Zuk wanted to do more with the molar than display it on a shelf. Zuk hopes he can use the decaying tooth to clone the dead Beatle. Seriously. Zuk...

Scientists Clone
Mouse With
One Drop
of Blood

Jun 27, 2013 7:05 PM CDT

Scientists Clone Mouse With One Drop of Blood

Peripheral blood cell has never been used before

(Newser) - You don't need a lot of mouse to make a clone. Researchers at the Riken BioResource Center have managed to clone a mouse using just one drop of normal, circulating blood, the BBC reports. The clone was healthy, lived a normal lifespan, and was able to reproduce. While mice...

Human Stem Cells Made
From Cloned Embryos

medical milestone

May 15, 2013 4:29 PM CDT

Human Stem Cells Made From Cloned Embryos

Oregon scientists report breakthrough

(Newser) - Scientists have made a long-sought—and controversial—breakthrough: They created stem cells from cloned human embryos for the first time, reports AP . In theory, the development by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University means that doctors might someday be able to grow tissue from an ailing patient's own...

The 12 Things Nearly All Americans Agree On

surveys say

May 13, 2013 11:47 AM CDT

The 12 Things Nearly All Americans Agree On

Surveys show most of us believe in God, are OK with birth control

(Newser) - What can nine out of 10 Americans agree on? Survey says: not much. That's partly because the big polls such as Pew, Gallup, and the General Social Survey are designed to explore differences, not to document what unites the United States. Still, a few questions discover 90% agreement, or...

Scientists Looking
to Reverse Extinction

Mar 19, 2013 3:08 AM CDT

Scientists Looking to Reverse Extinction

New techniques could bring back long-lost creatures

(Newser) - Human activity and other factors have annihilated countless species over the last few hundred thousand years, but researchers now believe some of those creatures aren't necessarily gone forever, the New York Times finds. Cloning requires an intact cell, but advances in technology mean that it could be possible to...

Wanted: 'Adventurous' Woman to Birth Neanderthal

Jan 22, 2013 1:44 AM CST

Wanted: 'Adventurous' Woman to Birth Neanderthal

Bringing Neanderthals back could save humanity, geneticist says

(Newser) - A Harvard professor has hatched a plan to bring back the Neanderthals—but he needs an "adventurous" female volunteer to deliver a knuckle-dragging bundle of joy. George Church, a geneticist who helped pioneer the Human Genome Project, says it is now possible to create artificial Neanderthal DNA from bone...

Germans Hope to Clone
Perfect Christmas Tree

Dec 22, 2012 9:29 AM CST

Germans Hope to Clone Perfect Christmas Tree

They want to improve the Nordmann fir by 2016

(Newser) - The hunt for the perfect Christmas tree may soon become a lot easier—and a lot less fun, at least in Germany: Just pick a nice clone. That's what German scientists are now working on, searching for a way to ensure that the sensitive saplings of the popular Nordmann...