1.   Dr. Willard Eyestone, an embryologist at PPL Therapeutics Inc., in Blacksburg, Va., said he got a bit further in his efforts to clone a cow.

2.   Japanese scientists say they have cloned a cow with a success rate at least as good as obtained with test-tube fertilization.

3.   A Holstein dairy cow cloned by Infigen Inc. of DeForest, Wis., was sold at auction last fall in the first commercial sale of a farm animal.

4.   Animal cloning has become common around the world, and Japan is at the forefront of technology to clone cows for beef.

5.   But Stice said unlike the method used with sheep, cloning the cows did not require surgery and it was relatively quick.

6.   Chen was a member of a research team which cloned a cow from embryonic cells last April, Xinhua said.

7.   Cloning a cow is also important from a practical standpoint because cows produce more milk than sheep, Foote said.

8.   Earlier this year, scientists in the United States succeeded in cloning a cow from fetal cells.

9.   Scientists in the United States succeeded in cloning a cow from a fetal cells earlier this year.

10.   Scientists in the United States succeeded in cloning a cow from fetal cells earlier this year.