1.   A Scottish company, PPL Therapeutics, announced Tuesday that its scientists had cloned a pig, creating five identical piglets.

2.   If only Gregor Mendel had lived to see the first cloned pig.

3.   Instead, the company issued a news release announcing that a pig had been cloned.

4.   Now, he and others can clone pigs, but he does not know which changes in his laboratory procedures made the difference.

5.   Pigs have been cloned for the first time using methods that may lead to an important new source of human-like organs for transplant, scientists said Wednesday.

6.   That was the experience of Randall Prather, a cloning expert at the University of Missouri, in years of efforts to clone pigs.

7.   They are going try and clone pigs to harvest tissue and organs for human transplant.

8.   Earlier this month, research groups in the United States, Japan and Scotland announced they had successfully cloned pigs.

9.   Later, the team wants to become the first to successfully clone a pig.

10.   Since pigs and humans are biologically similar, scientists may someday be able to clone pigs with organs that could be transplanted into humans, Stice said.