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Japan : Researchers in Japan have demonstrated, for the first time, that mice can be cloned using the nuclei of peripheral blood cells.
The method leaves donor animals virtually unharmed, and allows a single donor to be a clone source more than once.
With the success, It also shows promise for the cloning of farm animals.
Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone and scientists at a linked institute recently created nearly 600 exact genetic copies of one mouse.
The female mouse lived a normal lifespan and could give birth to young, say the researchers from RIKEN BioResource Center in Tsukuba, Japan.
