Cloning an animal isn't easy and I don't want to minimize that accomplishment. But the biggest breakthroughs actually came in figuring out how to make the in vitro manipulation successful. |
there are still a lot of questions to be addressed, but we will have three identical cloned brothers we are committed to studying through their lifetime. |
This is an interesting and important finding in cancer research alone, but we also thought that the horse's naturally low calcium levels might limit cell division in vitro. |
We embarked upon this expedition back in 1998, after Dolly, the sheep, was cloned. |
We transferred 113 clones last summer; 14 were still established in the mares two weeks after placement, and three developed into full-term pregnancies. Those are fantastic numbers for equine IVF, let alone clones. |