[HN Gopher] Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret
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       Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret
        
       Author : chetangoti
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-02-19 12:33 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | Less pictures, but has the full article:
       | https://outline.com/vP7tTA
        
       | sly010 wrote:
       | "may bring needed genetic diversity"
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       | Isn't the cloning the opposite of that?
        
         | maxerickson wrote:
         | The cells used to make the clone are from an individual that
         | died years ago.
        
         | glerk wrote:
         | The original cells were frozen in 1988 and since then the
         | population of black-footed ferrets has dwindled to just a few
         | individuals all living in captivity. The article mentions that
         | all black-footed ferrets alive today are essentially half-
         | siblings, except for this clone.
        
       | callmekit wrote:
       | From the article: "ViaGen created embryos and implanted them into
       | a domestic ferret surrogate".
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       | I wonder how the "created embryos" step can be done?
        
         | wcoenen wrote:
         | An unfertilized donor egg cell is taken from another animal and
         | has its nucleus replaced with one from a cell from the animal
         | to be cloned. The reprogrammed egg cell is then stimulated to
         | start dividing much like a normal fertilized egg.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_nuclear_transfer
        
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