Pig cloned from skin cells
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16/12/1999
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Business Line (New Delhi)
An international team of researchers has cloned a pig from foetal pig skin cells, opening up the possibility that genetically modified organs from these cloned animals could be used someday in human transplants."Xena" a female piglet clone, was created by Prof. Akira Onishi and colleagues by directly injecting genetic material into an egg stripped of its own genome, and transplanting that injected egg into a surrogate mothers.