Dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell in 1996. Other animals have been cloned since, including Turkish Angora cats that were genetically modified to glow red under ultraviolet light. Cloned animals can be useful for studying genetic diseases, but cloning is controversial. Cloning studies date back to 1885 with sea […]
Clones are created through somatic cell nuclear transfer, resulting in an individual with 99.7% genetic similarity to the donor. However, clones would have less genetic similarity to their donor than an identical twin. Human cloning success claims have been revealed as hoaxes, and the process has a high failure rate. Clones are created through somatic […]
