These embryos can then be transplanted into surrogate mothers and carried to term. The most successful of the cells for the process were cumulus cells, so research was concentrated on cells of that type. After proving that the technique was viable, Wakayama also made clones of clones and allowed the original clones to give birth normally to prove that they had full reproductive functions. At the time he released his results, Wakayama had created fifty clones. This new technique allows for further research into exactly how an egg reprograms a nucleus, since the cell functions and genomes of mice are some of the best understood.
Mice also reproduce within months, much more rapidly than sheep.
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