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From obesity to substance abuse, from anxiety to cancer, genetically modified mice are used extensively in research as models of human disease. Researchers often spend years developing a strain of mouse with the exact genetic mutations necessary to model a particular human disorder. But what if that mouse, due to the mutations themselves or a simple twist of fate, was infertile?
Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that mice could be cloned using the nuclei of peripheral blood cells.
Read the full story here: Cloning Mice: For the First Time, a Donor Mouse Has Been Cloned Using a Drop of Peripheral Blood from Its Tail
