ANIMAL WELFARE Cloning
Will the Commission think twice?
By Jennifer Rankin - 06.11.2008 / 00:00 CET
Ahead of next week's debate on cloning, scientific and moral questions remain unanswered.
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CLONE ALONE In Europe there is little public appetite for food from cloned animals. REUTERS
Fact file
Dolly the sheep
Dolly the Sheep was first. But since her birth in 1996 the same technique has been applied to thousands of other farm animals. The most common way of making a genetic copy is somatic cell nucleus transfer. This is where the nucleus of an unfertilised ovum (egg cell) is replaced with the nucleus of a body (somatic) cell from the animal to form an embryo, which is then transferred to a surrogate parent (the surrogate dam) where it develops until birth. EFSA estimates that there were 4,000 cattle and 500 cloned pigs in the world in 2007.
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