MadSci Network: Genetics
Query:

Re: Is it possible to clone a newborn in another mother's womb?

Date: Wed Jun 2 11:12:26 1999
Posted By: Jan Witkowski, Faculty. CSHL, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 928090175.Ge
Message:

It is not clear whether Dolly is older than her birthdate - it is difficult 
to interpret these data and there is only information on one such clone 
(Dolly) so far. But if it is true - that Dolly is as biologically old as 
the sheep from which she was cloned - then your suggestion of cloning from 
a fetus would work. In fact, it is done regularly in animal breeding - not 
in the way Dolly was cloned but by taking a young embryo with only a few 
cells and "splitting" it. This, of course, is how identical twins arise and 
is much easier than Dolly-style cloning.



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