cloning

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Introduction

creation of a clone or clones
recombinant DNA techonology used to produce millions of copies of a DNA fragment

Dolly was cloned from the mammary cell of a 6 year old sheep with an unfertilized egg from another sheep^[1]
despite the consensus that Dolly's death was a result of a common lung disease, not related to her cloning, ref^[3] suggests that Dolly's early demise was due to her start in life with a reduced number of telomeres, thus providing support for the telomere theory of aging*

* the difficulties with this argument are numerous

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Liu Z, Cai Y, Wang Y et al Cloning of Macaque Monkeys by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer. Cell. 2018 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29395327 <Internet> http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30057-6
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 11th edition (GRS11) Harper GM, Lyons WL, Potter JF (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2022
↑ Burgstaller JP, Gottfried B. Aging of cloned animals: a mini-review. Gerontology. 2017;63(5):417-425. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27820924 https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/452444