French scientists are in a hurry to clone the rabbit at Easter
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Last Update: 2002-04-09
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Introduction: French scientists say it's just in time for Easter that the rabbit was successfully cloned from mature cells for the first time A team from the National Association for agricultural research on the outskirts of Paris, France, made a breakthrough in rabbit cloning after successfully cloning sheep, cattle, goats, mice, pigs and cats By allowing them to tag individual genes, scientists say, cloning animals will help them understand human diseases Cloning rabbits is particularly useful because they are physically closer to humans than mice Given the ability of rabbits to reproduce naturally, cloning may seem redundant, according to a report published in the journal Nature Biotechnology in New York But tagging specific genes in the cloning process will significantly enhance the use of rabbits as models of human diseases The team used cloning methods that usually inject cells from adult rabbits into their eggs Thus the embryo is conceived by the surrogate mother rabbit Jean Paul Renard of the National Association for agricultural research in France and his colleagues said that as long as scientists adapt their methods to the physiological characteristics of eggs and embryos, the findings theoretically show that any mammal can be cloned Unlike dolly sheep, the first cloned mammal, or CC cat, the cloned rabbit has not yet been named.
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