{"id":149193,"date":"2022-10-31T03:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/worlds-first-cloned-arctic-wolf-is-now-100-days-old"},"modified":"2022-10-31T03:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:20:20","slug":"worlds-first-cloned-arctic-wolf-is-now-100-days-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/worlds-first-cloned-arctic-wolf-is-now-100-days-old","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first cloned arctic wolf is now 100 days old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-cloned-arctic-wolf-is-now-100-days-old2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese researchers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202209\/1275594.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created<\/a> the world\u2019s first cloned Arctic wolf \u2014 an achievement that could help save other species from extinction and ensure the biodiversity of our planet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> Scottish scientists proved back in 1996 that it was possible to clone a mammal using a cell from an adult animal. Possible \u2014 but not easy. <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4384947\/dolly-sheep-cloning-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dolly the sheep<\/a> was the only successful clone in their 277 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Cloning is still a challenging process \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-022-15097-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fewer than 25 animal species<\/a> have been cloned to date, so the first successful cloning of a species is still newsworthy 25+ years after Dolly\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese researchers have created the world\u2019s first cloned Arctic wolf \u2014 an achievement that could help save other species from extinction and ensure the biodiversity of our planet. Why it matters: Scottish scientists proved back in 1996 that it was possible to clone a mammal using a cell from an adult animal. Possible \u2014 but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}