The Latest Cloning Numbers
Date: 04/15/2002
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: | 3 live births out of 85 cloned embryos implanted (3.5%) |
Cloned cattle: | 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%) |