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by Tudor Toma

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Cloned mice are obese

Cloned mice have a spectrum of behavioral and metabolic alterations consistent with obesity that are not transmitted to their offspring.

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020301-03

Published

1 March 2002

Cloning using somatic cells has potentially important clinical and therapeutic applications, but the long-term effects of cloning on the offspring of these animals remains unknown. In March Nature Medicine, Kellie Tamashiro and colleagues from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio, USA, show that cloned mice have an obese phenotype, but that this is not transmitted to their offspring.

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