Yang Lab Publicity
Newspaper articles, magazine articles, TV and Radio news reports, etc.Our achievements on cloning and other reproductive technologies have resulted in extensive media coverage, including The CNN Headline News, BBC News, NPR News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The US News & World Reports, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe etc. Selected
publicity follows:
Hartford Courant, October 1, 2000. News Quiz and featured photo - Xiangzhong (Jerry) Yang grew up in China, where he once worked as a swineherd, and now does his thing at the University of Connecticut. What's his relationship to "Amy"?
Hartford Courant, September 23, 2000 (cover story and profile). Ambassador of cloning. By William Hathaway
The New York Times, September 3, 2000 (Cover story of Connecticut Section). This is not your father's agricultural school - featured Photo of Jerry Yang and Amy the calf. By Adam Boyles.
The New York Times, April 28, 2000. Cow's cells in experiment offer hope for cloning. By Nicollas Wade.
The Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2000. Cloning's latest star is a new, improved Dolly - Persephone the calf's cells are you for her age, raising hopes for treating diseases. By Laura Hohannes.
The Washington Post, April 28, 2000. Cloned cows showing no sign of early aging. By Rick Weill.
Hartford Courant, April 28, 2000. "Rebirth" of cells shown in study - Cloning research contradicts earlier reports on potential benefits to human health. By William Hathaway.
Hartford Courant, April 28, 2000. An odoriferous meeting (featured photo of Amy the calf with kids). By Alan Chaniewski.
Science, April, 2000 (commentary). In contrast to Dolly, cloning resets telomere clock in cattle. By Gretchen Vogel.
-FFA Alumni Newsletter, January 2000. Cloning pioneer to speak at January Alumni meeting. By Lee Giguere.
-Hartford Courant, January 4, 2000. Cloners use "Aged" cells to produce new calves - Scientists create offspring from DNA stored for months. By William Hathaway.
-The New York Times, January 5, 2000. Skin cells bring cloning a step nearer to efficiency. By Nicholas Wade.
-The Examiner, January 7, 2000. No silk purse but six calves cloned from bull's ear.
-Irish Independent, January 7, 2000. Calves cloned out of bull's ear.
-The Day, January 9, 2000. Send in the clones: UConn scientist finds himself in the middle of an ethical morass in his groundbreaking work with farm animals. By Bethe Durfrense.
-Chicago Tribune, January 9, 2000. Progress in cloning goes from crawl to stampede. By Peter Gorner.
-The Hartford Courant, January 10, 2000. Cloning: It's about cells, not humans. By William Hathaway.
-The Day, January 16, 2000. From sci-fi to reality: How cloning will improve our lives. By Michele Barber, Ph.D.
-US News & World Report, January 17, 2000. How to build a better bull. By Leslie Roberts.
-British Medical Journal, January 15, 2000. Cloned calves are grown from cultured cells. By Susan Mayor.
-The Scientist, January 24, 2000. More Efficient Cloning. By Nadia S. Halim.
-UCONN's Advance, January 24, 2000. Cloning breakthrough by Yang, Colleagues, attracts media attention worldwide. By David Bauman.
-Former Cornell Professor is Transgenics Pioneer - Watertown Times, 3/15/97
-Cloning: Learning about cells may let us go beyond copies - New Haven
Register, 3/20/97
-Altered rabbit milk can help cure disease - UCONN Advance, 2/14/97
-Xiangzhong Yang told trustees about advances in biotechnology at UCONN - UCONN Advance, 2/21/97
-State scientists discover the difficulties in doubling - New Haven Register,
2/25/97
-Ethicists express caution about cloning of mammal - The Hartford Courant, 2/25/97
-Mass. scientists aim to match cloning feat - The Boston Globe, 2/25/97
-NY Senate Committee News, 3/13/97
-Mooove Over Dolly: UCONN Clone, Amy, Is An Udder Scientific Coup – The Hartford Courant, 6/11/99
-On Biology’s Cutting Edge, A UCONN Professor and a Calf – Providence Journal, 7/27/99
-Cow Cloning Could Keep State’s Milk Production Flowing – The News Times, 7/21/99
-Holy Holy Cow Cow – The Chronicle, 6/11/99
-UCONN Scientists Score a First With Cloned Calf – UCONN Advance, 6/21/99
-Calf Cloned From Cow Ear at UCONN – The Boston Globe, 6/11/99
-Cloned Calf Born in UCONN Barn – Norwich Bulletin, 6/11/99
-Animal Scientists Produce World’s First Calf Cloned From Skin Cells – Journal (CANR), July/Aug/Sept 1999, Vol 6, No. 3
-Many Local Farmers Say They’d Welcome Cloned Cattle – Norwich Bulletin, 6/11/99
-The Soul of a Cloned Cow – The Hartford Courant, 7/8/99
-FairVue Farms Welcomes Visitors – Sunday Bulletin, 7/11/99
-Not as Old as her DNA – UCONN Researchers Created Clones Amy to Provide Insight on the Aging Process. The Hartford Courant. 6/18/99.
-On Biology’s Cutting Edge, A Professor and a Calf – Jerry Yang and Clone Amy put UCONN on the Cutting Edge of Biological Science. Advocate 6/28/99.
-UCONN’S Splendid Moment – Dr. Yang’s Cloning of Amy Emphasizes the Revolution Taking Place in Molecular Biology (Editorial). Day, 7/5/99.
-Amy the cloned calf was also covered in the following newspapers:
-Business Week
Montreal Gazette
The Boston Globe
The Chicago Time
Charleston Daily Mail
The Dallas Morning News
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Omaha World-Herald
The Plain Dealer
The Providence Journal
The Hartford Courant
The New London Day
Connecticut Post
The New Haven Register
The Willimantic Chronicle
The Stamford Advocate
The Waterbury Republican-American
The Associated Press
The Toronto Star
Journal Inquirer
The Danbury News Times
The Registered Citizens
The Ithaca Journal
Advocate
The Oriental Daily (Hong Kong)
The World Journal
The China Press
The Sun
Guangming Daily
The Asian News Week
Beijing Evening News
Hebei Daily
The Science and Technology Daily
The Canton Evening News
The Trivia
China International Times
People Daily (3 times)
Xinhua News
China News Service
China News Daily
TV and Radio (mostly on June 11, 1999)
CNN Headline News
ABC News (New York)
FOX News
NBC 30 Evening News (Ch 4)
Ch 3 News (Eyewitness News)
Ch 8 News
FOX 61
The China Central News – Oriental Scholar (Ch 1)
WILI Show
The National Japanese TV
National Public Radio
The National Australian Broadcast Corporation
The Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) – Quirks and Quarks (specials)
Voice of America
The Chronicle of Higher Education
WTIC News
WICC Radio
NE Cable News
Metro News
CT Radio Network
China International News Radio
The National Chinese Broadcast