BRITAIN’S first pet cloning clinic has been launched offering owners the chance to almost bring back their beloved animals.

Cloning offers several benefits to the animal researcher (for an outline of the process, see Fig. 1). First and foremost, for obvious reasons, there is a 100% chance that the cloned offspring of a ...

In fact, the first successful cloning of a mammal happened over a quarter of ... successfully cloned in the decades since.

Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, paving the way for further advancements in the field. Reproductive cloning involves creating a genetically identical copy of an entire ...

The efficiency of nuclear transfer remains extremely low (<2%) and high rates of perinatal mortality are observed, particularly when adult somatic cells are used as donor karyoplasts. This ...

“Cloning is growing as fast as we can ... cells of your old dog,” said Austin. The complicated process involves operating on two animals — both the egg donor and the surrogate — which ...

Blake Russell, Viagen's president, says the genetic material of the animal you wish to clone can be stored almost indefinitely before the cloning process takes place. This is thanks to the use of ...

They say there’s been a rise in demand from animal lovers who want to have their pets genetically replicated. The ...

Cloning close cloningA scientific method by which genetically identical copies are made of animals or plants. expensive food crops has been carried out for many years, and causes the public fewer ...

Nowadays, cloning mammals generally has a success rate of about 10% to 20%. Better than one in 277, but still a majorly inefficient process. Jose Cibelli: Technically, it's not difficult to ...