are animals being cloned
This process is also called research cloning or therapeutic cloning.. The goal is not to create cloned human beings (called reproductive cloning), but rather to harvest stem cells that can be used to study human development and to potentially treat disease. While a clonal human blastocyst has been created, stem cell lines are yet to be isolated from a clonal source. Consumers are opposed to animal cloning. 1  67% of Americans disapprove of cloning animals for food. 2  Disapproval increases to 88% when respondents learn that animal suffering is involved. 3  The majority of Americans think it is morally wrong to clone animals, and 63% would not buy cloned food even if it were labeled as safe. 1 In 2006, Scamper, an extremely successful barrel racing horse, a gelding, was cloned. 2  The resulting stallion became the first cloned horse to stand at stud in the US. 3  In 2010, the first lived equine cloned of a Criollo Horse was born in Argentina, and was the first horse clone produced in Latin-America. 1 The majority of Americans think it is morally wrong to clone animals, and 63% would not buy cloned food even if it were labeled as safe. 2  Numerous dairies, organic foods producers, and retailers have declared that they do not want to use products from cloned animals or their offspring. Cloning Animals for Food. The FDA has approved the sale of food products from cloned animals and their offspring, saying that it will not require labels. However, the American public does not support animal cloning, and the technology is riddled with problems that cause animal suffering. Embryologist Tong Dizhou unsuccessfully inserted the DNA from a male Asian carp into the egg of a female Asian carp to create the first fish clone in 1963. In 1973 Dizhou inserted Asian carp DNA into a European crucian carp to create the first interspecies clone. A species of wild cattle, the first endangered species to be cloned. In 2001 at the Trans Ova Genetics in Sioux Center, Iowa, USA, a cloned Gaur was born from a surrogate domestic cow mother. However, the calf died within 48 hours. Cloning of animals is opposed by animal-groups due to the number of cloned animals that suffer from malformations before they die, and while food from cloned animals has been approved by the US FDA, its use is opposed by groups concerned about food safety. 1 However, the cloning was done from an embryo cell, while the sheep Dolly in 1996 was cloned from an adult cell. 2  The first mouse from adult cells, Cumulina, was born in 1997 at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in the laboratory of Ryuzo Yanagimachi using the Honolulu technique. Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms. The term also refers to the production of multiple copies of a product such as digital media or software.
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