XINJIANG, China, April 19 (UPI) -- Chinese scientists say the world's first transgenic sheep produced with a simplified technique dubbed "handmade cloning" was successfully born.
In 2009, donor cells were collected from a Chinese Merino sheep and by genetic manipulation a transgenic cell line was established, said researchers at the genomics organization BGI, the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shihezi University in Xinjiang.