Friday, February 16, 2007

BBC NEWS | Health | Mice cloned from skin stem cells

BBC NEWS Health Mice cloned from skin stem cells: "Mice cloned from skin stem cells

Many cloned mice survived into adulthood
US researchers have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time.
Despite notorious difficulties in producing animals through cloning, nine of 19 mice who were born survived into adulthood.
The scientists replaced the nucleus from an unfertilised egg with the nucleus from an adult skin stem cell. Mice cloned from skin stem cells

Many cloned mice survived into adulthood
US researchers have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time.
Despite notorious difficulties in producing animals through cloning, nine of 19 mice who were born survived into adulthood.
The scientists replaced the nucleus from an unfertilised egg with the nucleus from an adult skin stem cell. "


This method can provide embryos from a male subject. Embryonic stem cells can be derived from that embryo.

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