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The Latest Cloning Numbers
With Dr. Severino Antinori claiming that a
woman is 8 weeks pregnant with a human clone and his now ex-partner Panos
Zavos planning to have 9-12 women pregnant with clones by August, we
wanted to examine just how successful is animal cloning these days now
that more than 5 years has passed since Dolly the sheep was born?
| Dolly the sheep, first
cloned mammal: |
1 live birth out of 277 cloned embryos (0.4%) |
| Cloned mice: |
5 live births out of 613 cloned embryos (0.8%)
5 live births out of 314 cloned embryos implanted (1.6%); Survived:
1 (0.8%)
26 live births out of 312 cloned embryos implanted (8.3%); Survived:
13 (4.2%) |
| Cloned pigs: |
5 live births out of 72 cloned embryos implanted
(7%) |
| Cloned goats:
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3 live births out of 85 cloned embryos implanted
(3.5%) |
| Cloned cattle:
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30 live births out of 496 cloned embryos implanted
(6%); Survived: 24 (4.8%) |
| Cloned guar: |
1 live birth out of 692 cloned embryos (0.1%);
Survived: 0 (0%) |
| Cloned cat: |
1 live birth out of 188 cloned embryos (0.5%); of 87
embryos implanted (1.1%) |
| Cloned rabbits: |
6 live births out of 1852 cloned embryos (0.3%);
Survived: 4 (0.2%) |
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