Designer babies 

 

1975: After taking an interest in human cloning and "designer babies", researchers learned how to combine DNA from organisms of differen't species

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                    A baby and it's clone with its' replicated DNA                                   Afragment of DNA getting taken out of  1 of the 3 donors and getting put into the embryo

1980: The U.S. Supreme Court allows the patenting of microorganisms. Patenting of a gene to be more specific, meaning that a gene containing a unique segment of DNA, possibly coding for a disease or protein, can be owned by a corporation or an individual.

 

 

 

1984: The worlds first "geeps" are created by scientists at the University of California.They fused cells of a goat and a sheep together, producing a whole new animal containing character traits of both animals. For example, the new animal had the horns and face of a goat but the body of a sheep.

 

 

 

1997: The report of the first successful cloning of a sheep was sent out.

On July 5, 1996 the first cloned sheep, Dolly, was born but not revealed

until February 3 of the next year. Her cloning was by a team in Scotland

led by a Scottish scientist Scotsman Ian Wilmut.

 

 

2000: A working draft of the human genome is released by The Human

Genome Project. Following in the next year, a "finished" sequence of

the human genome is released.

                                                                                                                                                        Dolly the first cloned sheep

 

2002: The promoting of egg freezing for women who want to delay childbearing is now available. By freezing an egg, it allows the woman to wait pregnancy and the embryo to be stored/saved for later. Egg freezing also makes the transfer of a human embryo easier and more efficient.

 

 

2004: The state of California passes Proposition 71 which is about stem cell research and cures. By this proposition, cloning of human embryos is now a constitutional right.

 

 

2010: A self-replicating "synthetic" bacterial cell is created by  researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute, after 15 years of research. (Look below to see the bacterial cell and J Craig).

                                                                                                                                             J Craig Venter

 

 

                                      A bacterial cell