Saturday, March 16, 2013

Starting with one mouse, scientists create 581 successive clones

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Mouse clones from the 24th and 25th generation of serial cloning (Photo: Riken)


Using the technique that created Dolly the sheep, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, have identified a way to produce healthy mouse clones that live a normal lifespan and can be sequentially cloned indefinitely. In an experiment that started in 2005, the team led by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama has used a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SNCT) to produce 581 clones of one original "donor" mouse through 25 consecutive rounds of cloning... Continue Reading Starting with one mouse, scientists create 581 successive clones



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