Ones that got away - April 15, 2009
“This significant breakthrough gives a means of preserving the valuable genetics of our elite racing and milk producing camels in the future.”
Lulu Skidmore, Scientific Director of the Camel Reproduction Centre in Dubai, says the world’s first cloned camel has arrived (Gulf News).
“We don’t typically name US space station hardware after living people and this is no exception.”
Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, explains why comedian Steven Colbert will not be getting a room on the International Space Station named after him, despite winning a poll (AP).
“In social insects, there are a number of different types of reproduction. But this species has evolved its own unusual mode.”
Anna Himler, of the University of Arizona, is part of a team that discovered the first asexual ants (BBC).
