15 June, 2024
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The first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, Dolly the sheep was born in 1996 and demonstrated the feasibility of cloning whole animals from differentiated cells.
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This photo from May 7, 2003, shows Fut, Africa's first cloned cow, in Brits, South Africa. On January 15, 2008, the US FDA declared meat and milk from cloned livestock as safe as those from conventional animals.
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Snuppy, the first cloned dog, was born in 2005. Dog cloning is used for pet cloning and also for producing dogs with specific skills, such as those used in search and rescue operations.
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Noori, an Arabic word meaning "light," was the first female pashmina goat to be cloned using the nuclear transfer process.
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The first cloned horse, Prometea, was born in 2003. Horse cloning is often used in equestrian sports to replicate champion horses.
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Rabbits were cloned successfully in 2001. They are used extensively in research due to their reproductive physiology and genetic similarity to humans.
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This photo from September 2, 2019, shows Garlic, China's first cloned kitten, at Sinogene in Beijing. The company has cloned over 40 pet dogs since 2017, charging 380,000 yuan for dogs and 250,000 yuan for cats.
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Kaguya, is world's first fatherless mammal. It was seen at a lab at the Tokyo University of Agriculture on April 23, 2004 in Tokyo. Kaguya was created by Tomohiro Kono and a group of researchers chiefly from Japan and South Korea.
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