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collected from all species… For cattle, pigs, sheep, goats,
camelids and llamas, a unified and identical procedure can be used
by obtaining a tissue sample from the ear using notchers which are
also used for setting earmarks… Clearly, for all species lymphocytes
could be used, but somatic cells from ear clippings will be much eas-
ier to obtain and are therefore preferable. 60
Some reports concerning organisms cloned by taking samples from
ear tissue include:
- According to a report by Reuters dated 1 May, 2002, a research vet-
erinarian at the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil, Jose Visintin, produced
cloned embryos for the first time in the country by using cells taken from
the ear of an adult cow. 61
- According to a BBC report, South Korean sci-
entists cloned a dog called Snuppy from cells taken
from a three year-old Afghan hound. Researchers
at Seoul National University extracted genetic ma-
terial from the cells taken from the ear and placed
it into an empty egg cell. An embryo was then ob-

tained by stimulating the cell to divide. 62
- Another BBC report said that a new clone
Snuppy, the cloned dog
had been produced using ear cells from an adult
cow in research carried out by Dr. Jean-Paul Renard et al. at the Institute
National de la Recherche Agronomique in France. 63
- According to information of the official Human Genome Project
website, in February 2002, scientists from Advanced Cell Technologies
(ACT), an American biotechnology company, carried out experiments on
cloning a cow embryo using the skin cell of the donor cow's ear. 64
- A report by Associated Press, dated 24 January, 2000, announced
that Japanese scientists
- had cloned the clone of a bull for the first time. In the re-cloning,
skin tissue samples from
- the first generation cloned bull's ear were taken

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