South Korea Produces Its First Somatic Cell Cloned Pig
South Korea's CHAO Pharmaceutical and the research group of Professor Kim Jin-hwe at Gyeongsang National University's College of Agriculture jointly carried out South Korea's first pig cloning project. Through this project, two cloned pigs were successfully born. The cloned pigs were born on July 14, 2002, using the somatic cell cloning method. The world's first successfully cloned pig was born in March 2000 at the PPL research institute in the United States. The research team now plans to develop genetically modified pigs by adjusting genes.
South Korea's CHAO Pharmaceutical and the research group of Professor Kim Jin-hwe at Gyeongsang National University's College of Agriculture jointly carried out South Korea's first pig cloning project. Through this project, two cloned pigs were successfully born. The cloned pigs were born on July 14, 2002, using the somatic cell cloning method. The world's first successfully cloned pig was born in March 2000 at the PPL research institute in the United States. The research team now plans to develop genetically modified pigs by adjusting genes.