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Commercial animal cloning is the cloning of animals for commercial purposes, including animal husbandry, medical research, competition camels and horses, pet cloning, and restoring populations of endangered and extinct animals. [1] The practice was first demonstrated in 1996 with Dolly the sheep.
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 ...
However, the cloning was done from early embryonic cells, while the sheep Dolly in 1996 was cloned from an adult cell. [82] Megan and Morag were sheep cloned from differentiated embryonic cells in 1995. Dolly (1996–2003), first cloned mammal from adult somatic cells. She had six lambs. [83]
Cloning of animals is opposed by animal-groups due to the number of cloned animals that suffer from malformations before they die, and while food from cloned animals has been approved as safe by the US FDA, [105] [106] its use is opposed by groups concerned about food safety.
The animal has been confiscated by US Fish and Wildlife Services and is being held in an accredited facility ... said cloning the giant Marco Polo sheep hunted in Kyrgyzstan in 2013 has ruined his ...
In 2022, Russian researchers found a young bison from over 8,000 years ago in Siberia. Now, they want to clone it.
In 2015, the European Union voted to ban the cloning of farm animals (cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and horses), and the sale of cloned livestock, their offspring, and products derived from them, such as meat and milk. The ban excluded cloning for research, and for the conservation of rare breeds and endangered species.
Cloning Dolly the Sheep Dolly the Sheep and the importance of animal research; Animal cloning and Dolly; Antiques Roadshow, Series 45, Brodie Castle 3, Dolly the Sheep. BBC (3' video clip). 6 April 2023. Episode where several items appertaining to Dolly, including wool from a shearing and scientific instruments, were appraised.