Description

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)