Birth of the first skin cell cloned cow in China
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Last Update: 2002-03-18
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: Recently, Kangkang, the first calf cloned from skin cells, was born According to experts, the cell source of this cloned cow is the epithelial cell of a beef foetus, which is a highly differentiated somatic cell The higher the degree of differentiation, the more difficult it is to clone Under the guidance of Suzuki Dakang, Professor of Yamaguchi University and honorary professor of Laiyang Agricultural College, this achievement was jointly completed by Dong Yajuan, associate professor of Laiyang Agricultural College and professor of xiangxuejin In the process of enucleation, they creatively adopted the click method instead of squeezing and sucking, which reduced the damage to the egg cytoplasm and improved the success rate of cloning.
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