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Advanced Cell Technology

Advanced Cell Technology , a biotechnology company formed in 1994, is involved with therapeutic cloning and the cloning of animals. Among the animals it has cloned are transgenic cows....
 (ACT), a biotechnology
Biotechnology

Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity defines biotechnology as:...
 company formed in 1994, is involved with therapeutic cloning and the cloning of animals. Among the animals it has cloned are transgenic cows.

ACT's Chief Scientific Officer is Robert Lanza
Robert Lanza

Robert Lanza is Chief Scientific Officer of Advanced Cell Technology and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Wake Forest University School of Medicine....
, who is also Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

At 7:30 PM on Monday, 8 January 2001, with the birth of a gaur
Gaur

The gaur is a large, dark-coated bovine animal of South Asia and Southeast Asia. The biggest populations are found today in India. The gaur is the largest species of wild cattle, bigger than the African Buffalo, Wild Asian Water Buffalo and bison....
 named Noah
Noah (cloned gaur)

Noah was the name of species of ox called gaur, cloning and gestated in the womb of a cow. Gaur is a vulnerable species according to the IUCN....
 at Trans Ova Genetics, in Sioux Center Iowa, ACT became the first biotechnology company to succeed at cloning
Cloning

Cloning in biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce Asexual Reproduction....
 an animal from an endangered species
Endangered species

An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters....
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Advanced Cell Technology
Advanced Cell Technology

Advanced Cell Technology , a biotechnology company formed in 1994, is involved with therapeutic cloning and the cloning of animals. Among the animals it has cloned are transgenic cows....
 (ACT), a biotechnology
Biotechnology

Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity defines biotechnology as:...
 company formed in 1994, is involved with therapeutic cloning and the cloning of animals. Among the animals it has cloned are transgenic cows.

ACT's Chief Scientific Officer is Robert Lanza
Robert Lanza

Robert Lanza is Chief Scientific Officer of Advanced Cell Technology and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Wake Forest University School of Medicine....
, who is also Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

At 7:30 PM on Monday, 8 January 2001, with the birth of a gaur
Gaur

The gaur is a large, dark-coated bovine animal of South Asia and Southeast Asia. The biggest populations are found today in India. The gaur is the largest species of wild cattle, bigger than the African Buffalo, Wild Asian Water Buffalo and bison....
 named Noah
Noah (cloned gaur)

Noah was the name of species of ox called gaur, cloning and gestated in the womb of a cow. Gaur is a vulnerable species according to the IUCN....
 at Trans Ova Genetics, in Sioux Center Iowa, ACT became the first biotechnology company to succeed at cloning
Cloning

Cloning in biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce Asexual Reproduction....
 an animal from an endangered species
Endangered species

An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters....
. Noah was carried and brought successfully by a surrogate mother from another, more common, species, in this case a domestic cow
Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
 named Bessie. While healthy at birth, Noah died within 48 hours of a common dysentery
Dysentery

Dysentery is a disorder of the digestive system that results in severe diarrhea containing mucus and/or blood in the feces. If untreated, Dysentery can be fatal....
, likely unrelated to cloning.

In 2001, scientists at ACT cloned the first early (four- to six-cell stage) human embryos for the purpose of generating embryonic stem cells.

ACT received the 2004 Corporate World Technology Award
World Technology Award

The World Technology Award is an annual recognition award given by the World Technology Network to individuals and corporations achieving significant progress in about 20 different categories that affect the modern world....
 for biotechnology.

On August 23, 2006, the online edition of Nature
Nature (journal)

Nature is a prominent scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869. Although most scientific journals are now highly specialized, Nature is one of the few journals, along with other weekly journals such as Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that still publishes original research articles ac...
 scientific journal published a paper by Dr. Lanza stating that his team had found a way to extract embryonic stem cells without destroying the actual embryo, deriving a stem cell line using a process similar to preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

In medicine and genetics preimplantation genetic diagnosis refers to procedures that are performed on embryos prior to implantation, sometimes even on oocytes prior to fertilization....
, in which a single blastomere
Blastomere

A blastomere is a type of Cell produced by division of the ovum after Human fertilization....
 is extracted from a blastocyst
Blastocyst

The blastocyst is the structure formed in early embryogenesis, after the formation of the blastocoel, but before implantation.It possesses an inner cell mass, or inner cell mass which subsequently forms the embryo proper, and an outer layer of cells, or trophoblast which later forms the placenta....
. This technical achievement would potentially enable scientists to work with new lines of embryonic stem cells derived using public funding. Federal funding is currently limited to research using embryonic stem cell lines derived prior to August 2001.

The company currently trades under the symbol of "ACTC".

See also

  • Key stem cell research events
    Stem cell

    Stem cells are Cell found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through Mitosis cell division and Cellular differentiation into a diverse range of specialized cell types....
  • Somatic cell nuclear transfer
    Somatic cell nuclear transfer

    In genetics and developmental biology, somatic cell nuclear transfer is a laboratory technique for creating a clonal embryo, using an ovum with a donor nucleus ....
  • Stem cells without embryonic destruction
    Stem cell controversy

    Stem cell controversy is the ethical debate centered on research involving the creation, usage and destruction of human embryonic stem cells. Not all stem cell research involves the creation, usage and destruction of human embryos....


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