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First cloned camel 'born' in Dubai
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by Amy Judd | April 14, 2009 at 12:39 pm
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The first cloned camel in the world has been 'born' in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates; their own version of Dolly the sheep.
The camel, named Injaz, is a one-humped female, 'born' on April 8 and is the product of five years of work by the Camel Reproduction Centre and Central Veterinary Research Laboratory.
"This is the first cloned camel in the world," said Dr Nisar Wani, a researcher at the Camel Reproduction Centre.
The name Injaz means 'achievement' in Arabic. She is the clone of a slaughtered camel in 2005.
"This significant breakthrough in our research programme gives a means of preserving the valuable genetics of our elite racing and milk producing camels in the future," Dr Lulu Skidmore, scientific director at the Camel Reproduction Centre, said in a statement.
Using DNA from the cells of the ovaries of the slain camel, scientists then put them in to an egg from a surrogate mother to create Injaz.
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at 17:21 on April 14th, 2009
In Dubai? well, they do have the funs to finance this.
South Korea is trying to clone the first Human successfully. However, not there yet.