Chinese researchers have cloned a pig that survived for weeks drinking rainwater and eating charcoal underneath the rubble of an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan Province in 2008. Zhu ...

The concept of cloning pets has stepped off the big screen into reality. Making a genetic replica of your precious dog or cat ...

PPL Therapeutics (Edinburgh, UK), the company that, along with the Roslin Institute, cloned Dolly the sheep, announced on March 14 that it had created the first pigs cloned from adult cells.

To make the micropigs, they cloned a Bama pig and used TALENs to disable one of the two copies of a gene for growth hormone receptors. Because the cloned pigs lacked these receptors, they don't ...

The piglets -- named Noel, Angel, Star, Joy and Mary -- were born at PPL's U.S. subsidiary in Virginia and the company said it thought they were the world's first cloned knock-out pigs.

Japanese researchers said they have produced three piglets cloned from a pig that was genetically modified to prevent rejection of its organs in transplants to humans. PorMedTec Co., a Kawasaki ...