WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - Scientists have impregnated a cow with cells cloned
from an endangered animal, the first time such an event has been
attempted, the Washington Post reported in its Sunday edition.
The scientific
journal Cloning will report in its upcoming edition that an Iowa
cow is expected to deliver a cloned Asian gaur sometime next month.
The Asian
gaur, a humpbacked, cow-like animal native to India and Burma,
is the first endangered species to be cloned and the first cloned
animal to gestate in the uterus of another species, the Post reported.
The Massachusetts
scientists who engineered the feat are already planning to clone
pandas using preserved cells from animals that died in Washington's
National Zoo in the 1990s, the report said.
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