Scholarly+Articles

"__Animal Cloning and the FDA-the risk assessment paradigm under public scrutiny__" The FDA was asked to assess the safety of meat and products produced by animals who were created by Somatic Nuclear Transfer (cloning). While the meat is safe to eat and the eggs as well as milk are all non-toxic the animals themselves may have complications. Due to process of cell splitting, some animals may experience odd skin pigmentations or less than standard immune systems. While these do not affect every cloned animal they affect enough cause a controversy over animal cloning. The authors of these articles are all bio-technicians who special in animal DNA manipulation. Specifically they work with stem cell research and how it applies to animals and their health.They conduct research in their own labs then they collect the data and make conclusions based off of their findings. The findings they produce are valid and are more factual than many online articles about cloning.
 * Nature Biotechnology**

Rudenko, Larisa, John C. Matheson, and Stephen F. Sundlof. "Animal cloning and the FDA—the risk assessment paradigm under public scrutiny ." //ORST//. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 May 2011. b

"__Production of Healthy Cloned Mice from Bodies Frozen at -20 ⁰C for 16 Years __ "
 * Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America**

It was previously unkown whether or not tissue taken from frozen dead animals could be used in the cloning process until an experiment conducted at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology. Several healthy mice were created from the tissue of frozen mice who had been kept at -20 degress Celcius for over 16 years. This is a huge breakthrough for cloning as it allows clones to be created from not only alive tissue, but dead frozen tissue as well. The contributors to these articles are scientists who have been working with animal cloning for many years. Specifically, Sayaka Wakayama recently conducted an experiment in which he cloned a mouse from dead frozen tissue of a mouse that has been frozen for 16 years. This experiment has been proven to be repeatable and is a major contribution to animal cloning.

Wakayama, Sayaka. "Production of Healthy Cloned Mice from Bodies Frozen at -20°C for 16 Years." //JSTOR//. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 May 2011. .