bt-venger21 t1_j70pf3q wrote on February 3, 2023 at 5:53 AM

Reply to comment by Pigs_in_the_Porridge in Back in the late 90s, I remember hearing that scientists “cloned a sheep”. What actually happened with the cloning, and what advancements have been made as a result of that? by foxmag86

It's been done tho, the failure of SCNT in primates and other mammalian models was found to be due to inappropriate reprogramming of the somatic cell nucleus, which then couldn't support the embryo development. Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are a couple of Macaca Fascicularis monkeys that were born via SCNT, and the use of new strategies for the epigenetic reprogramming of RRRs that yielded two healthy baby monkeys from enucleated fetal fibroblasts.