A CHIP that will automatically create hundreds of cloned embryos at a time is
being developed by a Californian biotech company, New Scientist has
learned.
If it lives up to its promise, the chip should help make cloning cheap and
easy enough for companies to mass-produce identical copies of the best milk or
meat producing animals for farmers. It might even be used for cloning human
embryos.
The chip automates the laborious process of nuclear transfer, the key step in
cloning. At present it takes hours of painstaking work with a microscope to
remove the nucleus of an egg cell…
