二十四头克隆牛健康状况良好

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科学家表示,出生一到四年后,24头克隆牛看起来正常且健康。这项研究结果将在11月30日出版的《科学》杂志上发表,与早期关于克隆动物存在遗传、免疫和发育缺陷的报道形成对比。参与这项研究的研究人员表示,结果表明,养牛户应该能够使用他们的克隆技术安全地复制他们最好的动物。此外,它们证实了克隆技术在医学方面的潜力。

由马萨诸塞州伍斯特市先进细胞技术公司的罗伯特·P·兰扎领导的研究人员将496个克隆胚胎植入247头母牛体内。转移后大约35到40天,45%的母牛被证实怀孕。只有30个克隆体发育到足月,但其中24个存活到成年,并且顺利通过了所有健康测试。克隆牛中80%的成功率接近从出生到成年的正常存活率,后者范围为84%到87%。该团队进一步指出,这些动物在行为和繁殖方面似乎是正常的。事实上,其中两头克隆动物已经生下了自己的小牛,这些小牛本身在各个方面也显得正常。

研究人员写道:“几头克隆小牛在出生时出现了肺动脉高压和呼吸窘迫,并在四个月大时接种疫苗后发烧。” “然而,我们没有观察到其他研究人员提到的遗传缺陷、免疫缺陷、严重肥胖或其他剧烈异常。”他们得出结论,这些先前报道的缺陷是否发生在其他物种中,或者是否源于克隆技术的差异,或者两者兼而有之,仍有待确定。

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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