Scientists in China create world’s first cloned wild Arctic wolf ‘Maya’

Scientists in China create world’s first cloned wild Arctic wolf ‘Maya’

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Category : International Published on: September 22 2022

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  • A wild Arctic wolf was successfully cloned for the first time in the world by a Beijing-based gene firm. 
  • The cloning of the Arctic wolf, also known as the white wolf or polar wolf.
  • The firm, Sinogene Biotechnology, released a video of Maya, the world's first cloned wild arctic wolf, 100 days after her birth in a Beijing lab.
  • The cloning of the arctic wolf was accomplished by constructing over 130 new embryos from enucleated oocytes of a female dog and somatic cells of a wild female arctic wolf. 
  • This was followed by the transfer of over 80 embryos to the uteri of seven beagles, of which one was born as a healthy wolf.
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