More cloned animals

Dr. Jonathan Hill, left, and Dr. Mark Westhusin, Texas A&M University researchers, marvel over Second Chance, a three-week-old calf which is believed to be the first calf cloned from an adult bull. The bull, named Chance, also was the oldest animal ever cloned — a 21-year-old Brahman.

— “Second Chance — First calf cloned from adult male,” AgNews, 2 Sep 1999.

Sho-zaburo, a clone of a clone, the day after he was born.

From far to near: original donor bull (Kamitakafuku), first-generation clone (Saburo), and second-generation clone bull (Sho-zaburo).

(CCRB/Univ. Connecticut photos)

Herman the Bull, the world’s first farm animal carrying a human gene, stands in his stable in Polsbroek, Netherlands, in this Jan. 18, 2002 file photo. Herman was put to sleep Friday, April 2, 2004 because he was suffering from a form of arthritis, his caretakers said. He was 13, not exceptionally old for a bull. His ailment was unrelated to his genetic manipulation.
(AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski, File)

(Photo: CRIENGLISH.com / biosino.org)

Yangyang, a female goat cloned from an adult by Chinese scientists in 2000, celebrated her fourth birthday [22 June 2004].… Yangyang is now the happy great-grandmother in a four-generation family.… Yangyang was the second goat cloned from somatic cells at the [sheep-breeding base of the China Science and Technology University for Agriculture and Forestry in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province]. The first one, Yuanyuan, also a female, died from respiratory failure stemming from undeveloped lungs 36 hours after she was born.
— “Cloned goat Yangyang turns four,” xinhuanet.com, 22 June 2004.

Two mules can't make another, but cloning can, Idaho Gem.

— Helen Pearson, “Mule cloned,” Nature, 30 May 2003.

Prometea’s good health is a pleasant surprise.

— Helen R. Pilcher, “First cloned horse born,” Nature, 7 Aug 2003.

Two cloned rats were born from 130 implanted embryos.… Ralph, the first and the only named rat clone,…father[ed] a litter of healthy…pups.

— Helen R. Pilcher, “First cloned rats born,” Nature, 26 Sept 2003.

Scientists at Texas A and M University have produced what they believe is the first cloned deer, the school said on December 22, 2003. Tests have confirmed that a fawn named Dewey born to a surrogate mother in May was a genetic duplicate of a male white-tailed deer from southern Texas whose skin samples were used in the cloning process, the school said. ‘Dewey is developing normally for a fawn his age and appears healthy,’ said Dr. Mark Westhusin, who was lead investigator on the project. Dewey is seen in this…file photo. (Texas A and M/Reuters)

Brandy the cloned cow looking in the mirror. Using the serial nuclear transfer (SNT) method, scientists fuse nutrients from a recently fertilised egg to the cloned embryo before it is placed in the surrogate. This enhances remodelling of the DNA. “It’s merging the nutrients of a recently fertilised egg with a cloned embryo,” [researcher Vanessa] Hall said. “By adding further nutrients into the cloned embryo we improve the quality of the cloned embryo.”
— Kate Jones, “Researchers create world’s first cow using nuclear technology,” Herald Sun, (17)18 Feb 2005.