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A comment on Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret.

Re:Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret by callmekit on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:30PM (#26207040)
From the article: "ViaGen created embryos and implanted them into a domestic ferret surrogate".

I wonder how the "created embryos" step can be done?

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Re:Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret by wcoenen on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:22PM (#26207594)
An unfertilized donor egg cell is taken from another animal and has its nucleus replaced with one from a cell from the animal to be cloned. The reprogrammed egg cell is then stimulated to start dividing much like a normal fertilized egg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_nuclear_transfer

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