1ST TEST-TUBE PANDAS EXPECTED IN 5 YEARS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Chinese scientists expect to produce the world's first test-tube panda in about five years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time official Xinhua News Agency “Xinhua” redirects here. For other uses, see Xinhua (disambiguation). The Xinhua News Agency (Simplified Chinese: 新华社; Traditional Chinese: reported Friday. Scientists already have started preliminary studies on panda embryo transplants, the news agency quoted Zhang Anju as saying. Zhang is head of the research group and chairman of the China Panda Breeding Technology Committee. The plan is to take an ovary ovary, ductless gland of the female in which the ova (female reproductive cells) are produced. In vertebrate animals the ovary also secretes the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone, which control the development of the sexual organs and the secondary sexual from a dead panda and extract eggs. When the egg is mature, it will be fertilized fer·til·ize v. fer·til·ized, fer·til·iz·ing, fer·til·iz·es v.tr. 1. To cause the fertilization of (an ovum, for example). 2. with a sperm and nurtured in a test tube until an embryo forms. The embryo will be frozen in liquid nitrogen until a suitable panda host is found. "We are striving to start experiments with transplanting such an embryo into a panda's womb in the year 1999," he said. The test-tube panda research has been designated a key project in the nation's five-year plan through the year 2000. The central government has set aside $360,000 for the test-tube program - a sizable amount by Chinese standards. The project is being carried out in southwest China's Sichuan province, where many of the nation's wild pandas live. Pandas are native only to China, and only about 1,000 still live in the wild. |
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