China clones a pair of Tibetan GOATS using same technique that produced Dolly the sheep in 1997
China has claimed that it has successfully cloned the first Tibetan goats using the same technique that produced the world's first cloned animal, Dolly the sheep. With the Tibetan goats, the somatic cell DNA came from three 'excellent breeding rams,' and the egg came from a single ewe. Scientists plan to use cloning to enrich the Tibetan goat population with rams that can father goats with higher quality wool Dolly, born in 1997, was the first animal cloned through somatic cell nuclear transfer. A scientist holds the cloned baby Tibetan goat, which Chinese state-owned media claimed is in good health To create somatic cell nuclear transfer clones, scientists take DNA from tissue and insert it into egg cells with their DNA removed. The news comes soon after the January announcement that a Chinese-produced monkey clone from a different team of scientists had reached two years old in good health The team also used somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce the rhesus monkey, a primate species noted for its closeness to humans.
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