Fruit flies cloned (12/23/2004)
Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada have created five fruit fly clones.
Fruit flies often used as a model to study reproductive science may offer new insights into why cloning is
often flawed. Because fruit flies have a short gestation period they can be cloned, grown and tested in a
relatively short period of time.
The process used by Dr Vett Lloyd starts by collecting the genetic material from an adult Dalhousie Fly
and inserting it into an emptied agg. The egg is then coaxed into splitting into an embryo. Unlike
"Dolly", the donor genetic material didn't come from an adult cell but an embryo cell taken from the adult.
It took 800 tries to produce the five flies, even though this knew process is considered much easier that the process
used to create "Dolly"
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