Cloned Horse

Cloning is to produce a copy or imitation of a living thing, meaning that the product of the cloning is genetically identical to the organism it's DNA was taken from. At Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences researchers were the first in the world to clone a foal using oocytes, egg cells, from a living mare, female horse. Kit Knotts, the proud owner of Mouse (the cloned horse), was in search of a horse very similar to Marc, one of the horses she had already owned. When she was calling around in search of a new horse she realized that she wanted a horse just like Marc, and she came across Texas A&M University. The cloning process began when a scientist examined skin cells from Marc, then oocytes from a mare were collected and usable embryos were made and put into a surrogate mare named Minnie. For 200 days Minnie carried Mouse then started to show signs of early birth. She gave birth to Mouse in the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. While there Mouse was taken care of by neonatal experts to make sure that he would survive. Now Marc has a twin even though his twin is much younger than he is.

Cloning is a very important developing part of science. Cloning could be the difference between an animal species being endangered or not endangered. Figuring out the mysteries and difficulties of cloning will definetly make the process easier and would help in the future when some animal is on the brink of endangerment or extinction.

It might be a very long time before humans can be cloned but scientists are on their way there. Horses aren't the only animals to be cloned. If a group of people have finally cloned an animal using oocytes from a living female species there is a good probability that it can be done with another species, and another, and another. This train of cloning will eventually pick up humans along the way. It will be vastly more difficult, but scientists have already found immence amounts of information about thousands of topics in science and they will eventually find out how to clone a human being.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611204152.htm