Chinese Scientists Successfully Create World’s First Cloned Wild Arctic Wolf

Beijing: World’s first cloned wild arctic wolf has been introduced by a Beijing-based gene agency on Monday.

The firm, Sinogene Biotechnology, released a video of the world’s first cloned wild arctic wolf named Maya 100 days after her birth.

According to experts, cloning technology will help in breeding rare and endangered animals.

According to reports, Maya’s donor cell came from the skin sample of a wild female arctic wolf. Its oocyte was from a female dog and its surrogate mother was a beagle.

The cloning of the arctic wolf was accomplished by constructing over 130 new embryos from enucleated oocytes of a female dog and somatic cells of a wild female arctic wolf.

This was followed by the transfer of over 80 embryos to the uteri of seven beagles, of which one was born as a healthy wolf.

The cloned wolf Maya now lives with her surrogate beagle in a lab and later she will be delivered to the Harbin Polarland, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province and displayed to the public, the report added.

The delivery of the world’s first cloned wild arctic wolf is a milestone for the appliance of cloning know-how, which is of nice significance to the conservation of uncommon and endangered animals and biodiversity, specialists consider.