The first case of somatic cell cloning in China, the Boer Goat “Tianyingâ€, was in Tianjin on the 24th and successfully produced a pair of “long and thin fetuses†through natural delivery, indicating that Boer goat somatic cell cloning technology can be applied to production. At present, the cloned mother and child have passed the postpartum dangerous period safely, and the two born lambs are in a good state of development. They are being observed at the sheep farm of the Tianjin Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Research.
According to Dr. Liu Haijun, head of the Boer Goat Cloning Project of the Tianjin Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, the current 20-month-old "Tianying" is on the 26th of this year, with her one-and-a-half-thousand-thousand-one-of-a-kind husband, "Fang Ying" and "married". . The pregnancy was 5 months, and at 9 o'clock on the 24th, the two young cubs were successfully delivered. The “brother†ram weighted 4.4 kg and the “sister†ewlet weighed 3.7 kg. Their birth shows that somatic cell clones have the same ability to reproduce as normal Boer goats.