Scientists from the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes have successfully developed a cloned offspring of a buffalo at Hisar, Haryana. The cloning has been achieved with an aim to conserve and multiply the population of superior buffalo germplasm. The cloned buffalo offspring has been named Cirb Gaurav.
Animal cloning is a process in which a single cell is taken from the parent animal, which is then used to produce genetically similar animals.
The first cloned animal was a sheep named Dolly, created in the year 1997 in Scotland. Dolly was also the world's first mammal to be cloned. She was born July 5, 1996, from three different mothers. Her genetic mother provided the DNA. Her second mother provided the egg into which the DNA was injected and a third mother carried the embryo. It took 276 attempts before the experiment was successful.
Some facts you should definitely know about animal cloning:
Since animal cloning is banned in Europe, the construction of the world's largest animal cloning factory might cause alarm
The factory will include a 15,000 square metre laboratory, an animal centre, a gene bank and an exhibition hall
The factory is currently being constructed in the port city of Tianjin, near Beijing, and is due to open in the first half of next year
The first dog to be cloned was born in South Korea in 2005, and was named Snuppy. The dog was also named the most amazing invention of 2005 by the Time Magazine
Clonaid, the first human cloning organisation, had claimed to have cloned a baby girl, Eve. There is no solid evidence of human cloning though
In the year 1952, Scientists claimed that they can produce a tadpole by removing the nucleus from a frog's egg, replacing it with the nucleus of an embryonic frog cell, and get the egg to develop into a tadpole. In 1975, scientists got tadpoles after transferring cell nuclei from adult frogs
In the year 1998, more than 50 mice were reported cloned from a single mouse over several generations.
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