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ViaGen began by offering cloning to the livestock and equine industry in 2003, [20] and later as ViaGen Pets included cloning of cats and dogs in 2016. [21] ViaGen's subsidiary, start licensing, owns a cloning patent which is licensed to their only competitor as of 2018, who also offers animal cloning services. [22] (Viagen is a subsidiary of ...
[110] [111] The best current cloning techniques have an average success rate of 9.4 percent [112] (and as high as 25 percent [37]) when working with familiar species such as mice, [note 1] while cloning wild animals is usually less than 1 percent successful.
Estimates of this rate vary from source to source. In 2012, according to a Belgian researcher, the average success rate for animal cloning was around 5%. [27] Argentine researchers estimate that 6 or 7 embryos are needed out of 20 trials (in 2013). [31]
Scripps News examines the science behind the technique and the ethical implications of this new chapter in humanity's relationship to animals. For $50,000, you could clone your pet. But should you?
Cloning animals requires procedures that can cause pain and distress, and there can be high failure and mortality rates.” Being able to produce genetically identical monkeys could be useful ...
People are cloning their pets to help continue the legacy of the animals.
The best current cloning techniques have an average success rate of 9.4 percent, [52] when working with familiar species such as mice, while cloning wild animals is usually less than 1 percent successful. [53] In 2001, a cow named Bessie gave birth to a cloned Asian gaur, an endangered species, but the calf died after two days.
By 2014, Chinese scientists were reported to have 70–80% success rates cloning pigs, [28] and in 2016, a Korean company, Sooam Biotech, was producing 500 cloned embryos a day. [35] Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly, announced in 2007 that the nuclear transfer technique may never be sufficiently efficient for use in humans. [36]