21.   The offspring will be examined to see if the cloning technique still is working.

22.   The Wisconsin company declined to reveal details of its cloning technique, over which it claims intellectual property rights.

23.   Using cloning techniques, the researchers have created a snippet of the yeast molecule that seems to work as well as the whole molecule.

24.   An emergency bill barring scientists from using cloning techniques to produce babies became law Tuesday, after it cleared its final legislative hurdle and received royal assent.

25.   Cloning techniques vary from simple plant cuttings to the extremely delicate and still unreliable replication of adult mammals from their own genetic material.

26.   However, animal preservationists fear the public will prefer the less-costly cloning techniques and pull funding for expensive breeding and habitat protection programs already in place.

27.   Japan has recently been aggressively developing cloning techniques in order to maintain the competitiveness of its cattle industry by producing high quality beef at a cheap price.

28.   South Korea imports much of its beef and food, and the government has encouraged agricultural scientists to experiment in cloning techniques as a way to boost farm production.

29.   The laboratory that produced Dolly the cloned sheep said Thursday it has successfully replicated the same cloning technique to produce five more lambs.

30.   The patented cloning technique involves inserting human cells into animal eggs or leftover human eggs from in vitro fertilization clinics.