Washington - The small and elite club of clones, restricted until now to females like Dolly the sheep and Cumulina the mouse, has gone co-ed with the cloning of a male mouse, researchers said yesterday.
Fibro is also the first documented live mammal cloned from adult cells that do not originate in the reproductive system, which suggests that adult animals can be cloned from any cell in the body. Scientists at the University of Hawaii say the technique is still tricky - they only got one living mouse out of 274 tries - but Fibro seems healthy and normal.
