
Since the first report of a cloned animal (Dolly the sheep) 3 years ago, cloning mammals has become something of a cottage industry. As Prather discusses in his Perspective, pigs can now be added to the august list of cloned animals, which includes cows, goats, and mice. This is a particularly spectacular achievement because pig cloning has turned out to be notoriously difficult. The pig is also a valuable domestic animal to have cloned because, being physiologically close to humans, its organs can be used in xenotransplantation.
Animals, Genetically Modified, Nuclear Transfer Techniques, Swine, Cloning, Organism, Endogenous Retroviruses, Transplantation, Heterologous, Oocytes, Animals, Humans, Cell Differentiation, Female, Fibroblasts, Culture Media
Animals, Genetically Modified, Nuclear Transfer Techniques, Swine, Cloning, Organism, Endogenous Retroviruses, Transplantation, Heterologous, Oocytes, Animals, Humans, Cell Differentiation, Female, Fibroblasts, Culture Media
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