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Gold9472
08-22-2005, 10:41 PM
Clones can reproduce!

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=53163

Updated: Monday, August 22, 2005 at 1346 hours IST

Washington, August 22: And then there were eight...

In what is seen here as another breakthrough for bio-engineering, three cloned African wildcats living in the United States have produced two healthy litters of kittens, demonstrating for the first time that clones of wild animals can breed.

The successful experiment, unveiled by the Audubon Centre for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans, Louisiana, over the weekend, appeared to open the way to bringing severely endangered species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said.

But it also raised the question if Jurassic Park, a fictional nature preserve teaming with cloned dinosaurs and velociraptors invented by popular novelist Michael Crichton and popularised in a blockbuster 1993 movie, was getting closer to becoming a reality.