1. Fetal cells are more amenable to cloning than adult cows. 2. Japanese scientists announced Monday that they had created two calves that are clones of adult cows. 3. Last week, scientists in Japan announced that they had cloned an adult cow, creating eight calves. 4. The researchers took cow eggs, filled them with DNA from adult cows, then grew the embryos for four days. 5. The story is that several years ago, without bothering to tell anyone, without troubling to write it up for publication, Willadsen cloned an adult cow. 6. For example, adult cows that produce more milk could be targeted for cloning. 7. Hwang transferred the nuclei from body cells removed from five adult cows into cow eggs from which the nuclei had been removed. 8. Japanese scientists clone eight calves from cells of one adult cow. 9. Lanza said the researchers started with a skin cell taken from the ear of an adult cow. 10. Last week, Japanese researchers announced the birth of two cloned calves, the first in the world cloned from an adult cow. |