Sunday, July 12, 2009

Bonyana, the first cloned calf in Iran is born :-)

The cloned calf named "Bonyana," which means foundation and principle, was successfully born through a cesarean section at Royan Institute in central Iranian city of Isfahan after 270 days of pregnancy.
The cloned calf, which is the result of a considerable number of in-vitro fertilizations (IVF) in more than 100 recipient cows, is in good health.

In April, Iran's first cloned goat, named Hanna and also known as R-CAP-C1, was born at the Isfahan campus of the Royan Institute.At that time, the Royan Institute said in a statement that the ultimate goal of Iran's cloning researches was to achieve the technology of producing recombinant drugs.
In 2006, Iran became the first country in the Middle East to announce it had cloned a sheep. The cloned sheep, named Royana.

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